Podcasts are awesome. Robots too. This episode from Steve Levitt’s podcast People I (Mostly) Admire entitled “Can Robots Get A Grip?” was the catalyst for this post: Can Robots Get a Grip? – Freakonomics. The podcast is mainly about the work of Prof. Ken Goldberg at U.C. Berkeley in training robots to grasp things. This…
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If plant blindness is a thing, then it seems reasonable that root blindness is also a thing. If we don’t notice plants as much as we do animals because said plants don’t move and capture our attention, then the root systems of these plants are even more invisible. ROOT SYSTEMS AND DIGITALISATION OF AGRICULTURE Another…
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If this is the definition of “Precision agriculture”, then I think that basically all agricultural researchers are working on this. I mean, no one is trying to work out what is the wrong product, or wrong place, or wrong time. Well, maybe some, but even then it is so it can ultimately be “right, right,…
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No, the photo is not a bad photoshop. That is just how it came out. During the 2025 cropping season, soil moisture sensors were installed as part of projects looking at digital tools for use in precision agriculture. One of the units was a set of three water mark tensiometer type sensors connected to a…
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This post describes my work in the field of the digitalisation of agriculture, as of August 2025. Mer = “more” in Swedish, so this is a post with more information, or an update, about me and my work within Digitalisation of Agriculture. Self indulgent, quite. But the purpose of this post is to describe (mainly…
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