New Israeli technology uses drones to artificially pollinate crops

Controlled pollination in Pinus radiata. Photo: Luis Alejandro Apiolaza, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Controlled pollination in Pinus radiata. Photo: Luis Alejandro Apiolaza, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

QueenDee, a spin-off of Tech-19 in Yeruham, Israel, developed a system that provides farmers with a cutting-edge solution that combines precision pollen collection and dispersal within greenhouses, with the power of AI for pollen assessment. different parameters that are of crucial importance for crop performance. 

As? The pollination of QueenDee It is done through drones. Although for now the drones are operated manually via a user-friendly control panel, the long-term goal is to make them fully autonomous.

QueenDee's device attaches to the bottom of drones, allowing pollen to be collected and distributed efficiently.

Adi Arbiv, the CEO of QueenDee, explained that “when a flower produces pollen, the vast majority of the pollen never reaches where it is supposed to go,” adding that “we don't have to collect millions of pollen grains; “It is enough for us to collect two milligrams of pollen.” 

The idea developed by the company emerged during a 2023 hackathon, which focused on drones. The Queen Dee team detected that pollination was one of the main challenges in agriculture, and from that, they began to work on an automated solution.

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  1. The Israelites inventing, improving, discovering for the good of the world; the falsely called Palestinians, murdering, terroristizing, corrupting everything while they prepare their free trip to hell for Israel's weapons.

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