T. Mary Little Flower

Researcher, Department of ECE · St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu · India

Mary studies AI-driven robotics and control systems, with a research focus on how autonomous machines are reshaping agricultural practice.

1 published paper

AI-Driven Robotics in Agriculture: A Review

A PRISMA-guided review of 35 studies traces how vision-based navigation, bio-inspired swarm robotics, and hyperspectral sensing are converging on autonomous farm machines — and catalogs the cost, adaptability, and policy gaps still standing between the technology and small farms.

Agri-EngineeringRoboticsArtificial IntelligenceIndia

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1 field note

Field notes9 min read

The 90% Herbicide Cut Nobody Can Afford Yet

A systematic review of 35 studies on AI-driven farm robots finds the technology already works — weeding robots cut herbicide use by 90%, harvesters pick with over 85% accuracy — but a $100,000-plus price tag is keeping it almost entirely out of smallholder hands.

By T. Mary Little FlowerFrom the paper: AI-Driven Robotics in Agriculture: A Review →