{"id":212812,"date":"2026-05-12T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T19:15:10","slug":"tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Tianlong Chen believes in precision agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/\">Tianlong Chen believes in precision agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/\">https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-12 15:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.unc.edu\">www.unc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tianlong Chen, an assistant professor from UNC&#8217;s computer science department, developed &#8220;Agent and Robot Teaming for Precision Agriculture&#8221; inspired by his family&#8217;s blueberry farm.<\/li>\n<li>The project employs drones and robots to detect and treat diseases in crops, exemplifying a human-centric approach to AI applications.<\/li>\n<li>Chen&#8217;s broader research aims to create trustworthy and efficient machine learning systems to enhance quality of life, focusing on healthcare and farming.<\/li>\n<li>His project aims to intelligently automate farming operations, integrate with existing agricultural tech, and ultimately connect AI and robotics to human work.<\/li>\n<li>Precision agriculture, still in research, uses AI to determine optimal plant density and may be operational within a few years, though scalability remains a challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Chen acknowledges that while AI significantly supports farmers with automation, it does not replace human labor, particularly for tasks like harvesting that are delicate or labor-intensive. <\/li>\n<li>The project, a collaboration between Chen and Lirong Xiang, envisions future integration of human, AI, and robotic systems to more efficiently manage farming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tianlong Chen believes in precision agriculture https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/posts\/2026\/05\/12\/tianlong-chen-believes-in-precision-agriculture\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-12 15:10:00 Source Domain: www.unc.edu Tianlong&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TianlongChen_Hero.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212812"}],"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=212812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212814,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212812\/revisions\/212814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}