{"id":20808,"date":"2017-02-09T13:34:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/?p=20808"},"modified":"2021-10-01T16:21:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T20:21:15","slug":"uga-engineering-robots-and-drones-to-help-feed-growing-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/uga-engineering-robots-and-drones-to-help-feed-growing-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots and drones to help feed growing population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s population is expected to grow 30% in the next 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll need to double our current food production to keep up.<\/p>\n<p>UGA Engineers are using drones and rovers to help scientists analyze crop heath and growth patterns.<\/p>\n<p>They can also scan and ID distinguishing features\u2026 like facial recognition for crops.<\/p>\n<p>All this data will help plant geneticists create new high-yield crops to feed our growing population.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/robots-and-drones-accelerate-plant-genetic-research-improve-crop-yield\/\">how robots and drones accelerate plant genetic research.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s population is expected to grow 30% in the next 30 years. We\u2019ll need to double our current food production to keep up. UGA Engineers are using drones and rovers to help scientists analyze crop heath and growth patterns. They can also scan and ID distinguishing features\u2026 like facial recognition for crops. All this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/uga-engineering-robots-and-drones-to-help-feed-growing-population\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robots and drones to help feed growing population&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":20841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"watch-single.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"post_medium":[315],"publications":[],"authors":[],"photographers":[],"video_credit":[],"takeaways":[],"class_list":["post-20808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering","post_medium-watch","entry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"post_medium","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_medium?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"authors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"photographers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/photographers?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"video_credit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/video_credit?post=20808"},{"taxonomy":"takeaways","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.uga.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/takeaways?post=20808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}