MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has outdone itself: it has created robots that can water plants, which signal their thirst via networked sensors, and pick tomatoes.
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Photo: Attack of the Tomato-Growing Robots!
Networked sensors alert the "robo-gardener" that it's time to water the crops.
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