Data center project to test crop-picking robots that could be used in space and on farms | NWI Times

Purdue University Northwest will be using a modern greenhouse at the Digital Crossroads Data Center in Hammond to test crop-picking robots. More than $1 million in federal and private funding has been secured by a group of Purdue University Northwest College of Technology researchers to try out the latest farming technology, which has the chance to facilitate farmworkers experiencing skills shortages, promote a new agtech economy, and save astronauts from doing physical work on a lunar or Martian colony. The project will get $276,000 from Digital Crossroads. It’s also constructing a 4,000-square-foot greenhouse that will be rented to Purdue Northwest and fueled by heat energy from the data center.

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