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Tech: Robot Gardeners Tend Tomatoes
Who needs a green thumb when you've got a robot to tend to your garden? James Williams get the dirt on a new garden-bot from MIT.
Added: Mar 30, 2009
Views: 20985 Views
Runtime: 00:51
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