Media & public engagement

Research shared beyond the laboratory.

Selected television, news, grower engagement, field demonstrations, and STEM outreach from my agricultural robotics program.

Featured television · PCN · August 14, 2026

Automated Precision Herbicide Spraying

Pennsylvania Cable Network produced a dedicated 2-minute-32-second segment on the precision herbicide-spraying research displayed at Penn State's Ag Progress Days.

Selected coverage

Research in the public conversation.

Penn State News

Eyes for an agricultural robot: AI system identifies weeds in apple orchards

Research feature

ASME Mechanical Engineering

AI in the Weeds

Engineering feature

Gettysburg Connection

Career Day Inspires Sixth Graders at Upper Adams Intermediate School

Community coverage

Digital CxO

AI Goes to the Orchard

Artificial intelligence

Imaging & Machine Vision Europe

AI vision weed-detection model built at Penn State

Machine vision

FreshPlaza

U.S. team advances AI weed detection for orchards

Specialty crops

Outreach and demonstrations

In classrooms, orchards, and field days.

Upper Adams Career Day

Robotics demonstration for more than 80 sixth-grade students and teachers.

Plant Yourself in Ag Day

Robotic weeding demonstration for more than 175 high-school students and teachers.

FREC Grower Field Day

Research presentation and live technology engagement with more than 150 growers and stakeholders.

Penn State Ag Progress Days

Public demonstration of robotic weed-management technology.

Lawrence Arthur communicating agricultural robotics research in meeting and field settings
Research communicated directly with growers, students, educators, and agricultural stakeholders.

Scientific communication

April 2026

ASABE Global Engagement Initiative

Invited webinar on AI-driven precision herbicide spraying.

March 2026

Conservation Conversations

Interview on AI in agriculture and practical implementation.

Conference record

Seven oral presentations and four exhibitions

ASABE, NABEC, NC State, Penn State, and the Mid-Atlantic Fruit & Vegetable Convention.