A Growing Investment Technology has always co-existed with agriculture, but, over the last few years, there has been a concerted cross-pollination. In 2020, the National Science Foundation launched its National […]
Author: Paola Pesantez Cabrera
WSU’s AgAID Institute attends White House event on AI
The “AI Aspirations: R&D for Public Missions” event held in Washington, D.C. in early June brought together leading experts from across the federal government as well as from universities and industry. The […]
Promise and Pitfalls: Cultivating understanding of agricultural artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is filtering your spam, gatekeeping your newsfeed, chatting with you online, and underpinning many of your regular activities. Many vaunt the potential of AI in agriculture to […]
Achievements in the Reporting Year (Year 2)
The goals of the AgAID Institute are to bring about a fundamental transformation in agricultural decision support, farm operations and workforce development, using foundational developments in AI, and to build […]
Data Driven Decision Making: Empowering Farmers in a Changing Climate
Can data be a game changer for farmers in the face of climate change? Farmers are at the forefront of risk and uncertainty in the face of a rapidly changing […]
Highlighting growing portfolio of innovative agricultural AI work
WSU leads the Institute for Agricultural AI for Transforming Workforce and Decision Support, commonly known as AgAID, launched in 2021 with support from NSF and the U.S. Department of Agriculture National […]
WSU tech field day introduces a wide variety of research projects
It takes a diverse team of researchers to tackle orchard technology development. So, a diverse team of students, university faculty and technology suppliers spoke at a technology field day organized […]
Using Autonomous Pathing Orchard Robots
I spent this summer working as an intern at the Center for Precision and Automation Agricultural Systems at Washington State University, a renowned research facility dedicated to advancing the field of sustainable […]
Cantwell Calls for AI Bill to Prepare Workers for Jobs of the Future
For farmers and the agriculture industries, Washington State University’s AgAID Institute showcased how AI can track and analyze factors influencing crop yields. Carbon Robotics also attended and showed how their […]
Tech policy leaders explore new frontiers for supporting (and regulating) AI at forum
U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, the Washington state Democrat who chairs the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, says the situation reminds her of the way the G.I. Bill opened up opportunities for […]