CPAAS

WSU scientists to share research at upcoming Honoring Undergraduate and Graduate Scholars Symposium

Scientists at WSU IAREC will share their research alongside Heritage University undergraduate students during the Honoring Undergraduate and Graduate Scholars Symposium on March 31. The event, set to take place on the Heritage University campus in Toppenish, Washington, represents an ongoing alliance between the two universities while helping WSU graduate students improve their mentoring skills.

A stereo camera works in a cherry orchard.

Automated drones could scare birds off agricultural fields

A WSU research team has developed a systems where cameras could spot birds feeding on fruit and launch drones to drive off the avian irritants. All without human interference.

A drone hovers over a green vineyard with mountains in the background.

WSU partners with Netherlands, Washington growers to improve orchard robotics, automation

A delegation led by the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission visits the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2019. The Commission leads a new, collaborative effort between researchers and…

Robotic crop pollination goal of new $1 million grant

A team led by WSU scientists received grant to develop robotic technology for crop pollination.

Karkee works on an extended metal arm with several hinges.

WSU, Australian scientists link to transform agriculture in new Joint Center for Ag Robotics

  Joining forces to speed robotic advancements that help farmers grow food with fewer resources, scientists at Washington State University and Australia’s University of Technology Sydney (UTS) have partnered to form the new Joint Center for Agricultural Robotics. The first collaboration of its kind for WSU’s Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems (CPAAS), the […]

Group photo of WSU, CPAAS, UTS faculty in autumn setting

Issue #200, Hard Cider, Precision Ag

On Solid Ground Publishes 200th Issue You are reading the 200th issue of Washington State University’s agricultural science e-newsletter On Solid Ground. The biweekly, electronic newsletter has been published continuously since August 2006 and in that time has run more than 600 news stories. “We started out with a select group of subscribers we wanted […]