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An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields | AP News

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Theo the robot works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what for a regular farmworker would be backbreaking work checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. The boxy robot, named after a former employee at the WAM Pennings flower farm near the Dutch North Sea coast, is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) Allan Visser, a third-generation tulip farmer walks near to Theo the robot, in Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color. The robot is replacing a dwindling number of human “sickness spotters” who patrol bulb fields on the lookout for diseased flowers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong

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