Nursery PIPER prototype image by Grace Pietsch (IMAGE)

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture

Nursery PIPER prototype image by Grace Pietsch

Caption

Darlene Player, former University of Tennessee senior design student in biosystems engineering, records how an early prototype of the PIPER (Pot-in-Pot Extraction Robot) harvests a red maple in a 15-gallon container with her mobile device at the UT Nursery Research Complex. Fellow senior design student, Bailey Millsaps, operates the prototype by remote control.

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Photo by G. Pietsch, courtesy UTIA.

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