Young inventor creates robotic space gardener for growing plants on other planets

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EXCERPT: . . . The last part of the inventions is a robotic gardener that could care for the plants in the SPOT chambers. Hava developed a prototype with NASA's X-Hab team for a Remotely Operated Gardening Rover (ROGR) that could be remotely controlled to move around the spacecraft or habitat to monitor and harvest the plants. ROGR has cameras that allow the remote operators to inspect the crops to see if they're ready for picking. If so, the ROGR's arm can be used to harvest the food and move it to a food prep area....