A European consortium is developing an unmanned robot equipped with non-invasive advanced sensors and artificial intelligence systems which will help manage vineyards.
The robot will be able to provide reliable, fast and objective information on the state of the vineyards to growers, such as vegetative development, water status, production and grape composition.
VineRobot, whose partners met recently at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), is led by the Universidad de La Rioja. Completing the consortium are the Spanish company Avanzare, the French FORCE-A and Wall-YE, and the Italian Sivis, together with Les Vignerons de Buzet, a wine cellar cooperative near Bordeaux; and the Hochschule Geisenheim University in Germany.
Can big data analytics predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks?
That is the subject of a two-year analysis of the
Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates (EMBERS)
system. The usefulness of this predictive artificial intelligence system for population-level events could be important. If existing models, which successfully predict the past, were good enough no one would ever lose money in the stock market.
GOCE gravity satellite. ESAWe might like to think of the earth as fixed and unmoving but that is not the case. Things are always shifting, even if we may not have noticed in the past.
More than 2 million years of life have been saved by solid-organ transplants since 1987, according to a new report in JAMA Surgery.
The two hemispheres of Mars are dramatically different - more distinct from each other than any other planet in our solar system.
The northern hemisphere is non-volcanic, flat lowlands while highlands punctuated by countless volcanoes extend across the southern hemisphere. Although theories and assumptions about the origin of this so-called and often-discussed Mars dichotomy abound, there are very few definitive answers.
Wine has gotten more than its share of Miracle Product mainstream media coverage so it's no surprise that beer has been left behind - smooth, balanced beers, the kind of thing that made large brands famous, are out of fashion and now everyone wants hoppy drinks, or something else wildly exaggerated.
But beer has always been a science favorite.
Sometimes you hear of breakthroughs being celebrated with a bottle of Mogen David, though it is rare.
The Scorched Cherry Twig And Other Christmas Miracles Get A Science Look
$0.50 Pantoprazole For Stomach Bleeding In ICU Patients Could Save Families Thousands Of Dollars
Metformin Diabetes Drug Used Off-Label Also Reduces Irregular Heartbeats 
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