2024 Results
2024 Grand Prize Winner
$10,000 Award
PhoenixBot - Olin College of Engineering
PhoenixBot, an autonomous mechanical weeding system, was built to navigate through row-based crop fields of seedling to early-stage crops to effectively remove weeds.
Excellence in Productivity
$5,000 Award
Florabot - Auburn University
Florabot collects imagery data for plant counting and quality assessment. Our goal is to improve nursery management by making inventory more efficient and reducing manual labor.
Excellence in Small Farms Tech
$5,000 Award
Bin Haulers - Washington State University & Heritage University
A precision ag robotic system designed for efficient bin-picking and placement in apple orchards.
Excellence in Sustainability
$2,500 Award
TAMU-NCSU Robotics Team - Texas A&M University & North Carolina State University
A multi-modal proximal data collection system utilizing AI to generate height maps for semi-structured row crops to aid in effective application of post emergence herbicide.
Excellence in Safety
$2,500 Award
Electrified Slugs - UC Santa Cruz
McStream is an application that allows a user to view the camera and operate the robot without a physical connection. To improve line-following accuracy, we trained a neural network for image-based plant identification.