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Developing robots that fight slugs: MSRBot, the Impaler

Two young scientists have been working on the MSRBot project in Germany since 2016. The concept relies on image processing to track and hunt slugs, and when it does the autonomous vehicle kills the little crop munchers.

The three-year project started in November 2016 and has been conducted by the University of Kassel, the Agricultural Machinery Faculty, the Institute for Applied Plant Protection Technologies at

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