GEAIR breeding robot cuts tomato breeding cycle from five years to one
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The Chinese Academy of Sciences' GEAIR robot uses deep learning to identify flowers and pollinate them around the clock, cutting tomato hybrid breeding from five years to one and labor costs by over 25%. In soybean breeding it cuts manual pollination time by 76.2%.
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