A team of Purdue University Northwest (PNW) College of Technology researchers has been awarded a total of more than $1 million in federal and private funding to develop and test advanced agriculture technology (agTech) solutions. The project will be based in a greenhouse under development at the Digital Crossroad Data Center in Hammond, IN.
PNW will receive $726,389 through the U.S. Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Scaling Pandemic Resilience Through Innovation and Technology (SPRINT) Challenge. The university is one of 44 awardees of these grants from a pool of 238 applicants nationwide.
The funds were awarded to Project TRAVERSE: agTech Robotics, Automation and Virtually Employed Resiliently Scaling Enterprises. Project TRAVERSE uses advanced manufacturing technology, robotics and cyber-physical systems to develop and pilot test agTech solutions, like remote planting and harvesting of an array of crops. The project is expected to provide alternative solutions to curr
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