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Can AI teach a tractor to think?

In UM's new video series, Up Close, researcher Jay Wang shows us the game-changing tech he's developing for Manitoba farmers.

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Assistant Professor Jay Wang, with UM’s Robot Autonomy Lab, is building a “brain” for farm machinery. Wang is combining artificial intelligence with physics-based control systems to help robots learn, adapt and operate safely in unpredictable environments. His goal is to develop a technology that could make existing farm equipment fully autonomous and more productive, and that could one day be deployed in other sectors, including space exploration.

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