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

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 Flower, S. Christopher Ezhil Singh, Rinu Benny, G. Glan Devadhas, R. Malkiya Rasalin Prince, S. Jerril Gilda, P. Sridharan, K. G. Jaya Christiyan, and K. JessyFrom the paper: AI-Driven Robotics in Agriculture: A Review →