Google AI
The Times Australia

Times Media

AI can track bees on camera. Here's how that will help farmers

  • Written by: Malika Nisal Ratnayake, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
AI can track bees on camera. Here's how that will help farmersJustus Menke/Unsplash

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers a new way to track the insect pollinators essential to farming.

In a new study, we installed miniature digital cameras and computers inside a greenhouse at a strawberry farm in Victoria, Australia, to track bees and other insects as they flew from plant to plant pollinating flowers.

Using...

Read more: AI can track bees on camera. Here's how that will help farmers

Times Magazine

Using AI to Do Your Investment Taxes? Sharesight Says Think Again

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a fresh warning this tax season against relying on...

Why AutoCalc Draws a Line Between AI and Lending Maths

Most mortgage technology starts with the assumption that a client’s income has already been unders...

BYD Sealion 7 Named Australia's Most Searched-For Electric Vehicle as Interest in EVs Accelerates

New research from car insurance expert MoneySuperMarket reveals the BYD Sealion 7 is the most-se...

Technology

Using AI to Do Your Investment Taxe…

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued a fresh warning this tax season against relying on...

Local News

Psychology clinic in Tasmania opens…

In response to Tasmania’s growing mental health crisis, a new purpose-built, multi-disciplinary me...

Culture

Junction Arts Festival Returns to Transform L…

Launceston will once again become a platform for bold art, performance, music and shared experienc...

Travel

Korea Tourism Organization Invites Australian…

The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) has launched Korea Unlocks More of You, a new national campai...

The Times Features

Junction Arts Festival Returns to Transform Launceston …

Launceston will once again become a platform for bold art, performance, music and shared experienc...

As Aussies Ask More of Their Food, Grill'd Unveils…

Because a protein hit shouldn’t mean a flavour trade-off.Wellbeing has become the defining obsession...

Who Really Funds Australia's Biggest Projects?

When Australians see a new motorway, renewable energy project, logistics hub or office tower under...