{"id":193694,"date":"2026-03-07T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/spelman-lab-developing-ai-to-give-anyone-a-green-thumb\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:25:09","slug":"spelman-lab-developing-ai-to-give-anyone-a-green-thumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/07\/spelman-lab-developing-ai-to-give-anyone-a-green-thumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Spelman Lab Developing AI To Give Anyone A Green Thumb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/spelman-innovators-plantgpt-ai-hbcu-artificial-intelligence\/\">Spelman Lab Developing AI To Give Anyone A Green Thumb<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/spelman-innovators-plantgpt-ai-hbcu-artificial-intelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/spelman-innovators-plantgpt-ai-hbcu-artificial-intelligence\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-07 10:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.blackenterprise.com\">www.blackenterprise.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The PlantGPT project, developed at Spelman College&#8217;s Arthur M. Blank Innovation Lab, combines plant sensors with artificial intelligence to provide real-time guidance for plant care.<\/li>\n<li>Led by Joy Rutledge and Temple Dees, the project aims to analyze environmental data from plants to determine their optimal growth conditions, including moisture, humidity, temperature, and light exposure.<\/li>\n<li>PlantGPT interprets sensor data using AI to produce customized recommendations for plant health, allowing users to adjust conditions like watering and sunlight based on real-time feedback.<\/li>\n<li>The project began with Grace Burch, a Spelman biology graduate, who started the prototype using Arduino hardware, and has since evolved with additional features and technical improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Currently being tested on houseplants, the team continues to refine PlantGPT&#8217;s capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>PlantGPT has received accolades, including a $1,000 award from the Center for Black Entrepreneurship and top honors in the AAAS Making &amp; Innovation Competition, funding its ongoing development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spelman Lab Developing AI To Give Anyone A Green Thumb https:\/\/www.blackenterprise.com\/spelman-innovators-plantgpt-ai-hbcu-artificial-intelligence\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-07 10:11:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blackenterprise-prod.b-cdn.net\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/03\/pexels-thirdman-7219684-e1772832063430.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-193694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193696,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193694\/revisions\/193696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}