Guy Coleman headed to Bayer 2019 Youth Ag Summit

Sharon O'Keeffe
Updated August 13 2019 - 10:07am, first published August 1 2019 - 3:30pm
FLYING HIGH: University of Sydney precision weed control scientist Guy Coleman with director of weed research Michael Walsh, PBI director for northern agriculture Guy Roth, and XAg's Charles Chow demonstrating a precision spray drone.
FLYING HIGH: University of Sydney precision weed control scientist Guy Coleman with director of weed research Michael Walsh, PBI director for northern agriculture Guy Roth, and XAg's Charles Chow demonstrating a precision spray drone.

Gordon the robot may have started life as a pile of scraps on the floor, but thanks to the work of scientist Guy Coleman it now has a promising career demonstrating how machine learning could be used for weed detection on farms in the not-so-distant future.

Sharon O'Keeffe

Sharon O'Keeffe

National Agriculture Writer - Farm Machinery and Technology

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