Robots Taking Care Of Tomatoes

Judy Lowe writes: Don’t you just love the idea of robots taking care of tomato plants, feeding and watering them when the tomatoes ask for it?! And not just in a SF book or flick. It’s here — and has some practical implications for agriculture.
Because this kind of thing fascinates me, I’m taking the unusual step of turning this column over to the MIT news service today, so you can read all about what they’re doing.
Be sure to scroll through the photos, too.
“In the middle of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sits a platform of fake grass with tomato plants nestled in terra-cotta pots, growing under the light of an artificial sun.
“But this urban, indoor garden has a twist: The caretakers of the plants are entirely robotic.