Mark Presten

AG was supported in part by @NSF, @USDA, developed by @AUTOLab_Cal w/ @mark_presten_, @yahavigal, MarkTheis, SatvikSharma, @rishiparikh03, ShreyAeron, SandeepMukherjee, SebastianOehme, @funmilore, WalterTeitelbaum, VarunKamat & @Ken_Goldberg. ArXiv: twitter.com/arxiv_daily/st… (9/9)

For four 60-day real garden cycles, planning and decisions were autonomous, minor human supervision corrected spatial servo errors. Results suggest AlphaGarden can achieve 96% normalized diversity w/ Pruning Shears and an avg canopy coverage of 86%. (8/9)

What’s the future of food? Polyculture farming is more sustainable than monoculture, but requires more labor. Could robots help? New results w/ AlphaGarden using “Real2Sim2Real” learning from @AUTOLab_Cal @UCBerkeley. Data, paper, and presentation: sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/a… (1/9)