[robotresearcher]

Peter Corke and his huge team at QUT are doing great stuff in this area. They have spot-spraying robots, that zap only weeds and fertilize only crops, and also a great device that just mechanically smashes up weeds one-by-one.

Peter has an admirable ability to choose projects and deliver the goods on them. Robotics needs more like him.

Interview with Corke on this subject:

http://robohub.org/robots-zero-tillage-robotics/

Homepage with free stuff including books and MOOC:

http://petercorke.com/wordpress/

edit: I'm not affiliated with QUT and have no conflict of interest. I'm an academic that does related work but not in agriculture.

[reachtarunhere]

Peter Corke is an amazing guy. Loved his MOOC. Highly recommended if you are just curious about robotics. MATLAB is a sad aspect of it though.

[RoboticsAU]

Peter Corke launched a new site recently, which is based on his MOOC: https://robotacademy.net.au/

He outlines the reasons why they shifted away from MOOCs in the Robots Podcast episode #239.

I recently made a site too, for anybody interested in robotics/AI: http://roboticsaustralia.org