Nebraska group receives $25 million grant to develop robotics in agriculture

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A challenge in Nebraska to develop automation and robotics in agriculture has acquired a $25 million grant from the federal authorities.

The Heartland Robotics Cluster, a coalition of native entities led by the Make investments Nebraska Company, was one among 21 recipients of the grant from the U.S. Financial Growth Administration.

On Monday, representatives of the EDA, the state and native governments, and UNL personnel toured the Nebraska Innovation Campus and held a roundtable dialogue on the grant.

The Nebraska Innovation Studio on the Innovation Campus is a part of the cluster. It should use a number of the cash to develop to offer innovators from throughout the state a spot the place they’ll develop automation and robotic options.

Innovation Campus is already main the best way in robotic engineering with the Digital Incision Company.

That firm is revolutionizing the surgical subject with a surgeon-controlled robotic that goes into the physique to carry out surgical procedures.

Craig Buerstatte of the EDA stated the workplace picked the Heartland Robotics Cluster as a result of the technique specified by the request confirmed that Lincoln was not making an attempt to be San Francisco or Boston, however moderately constructing what’s greatest for Nebraskans.

The purpose is to enhance labor productiveness in agriculture and manufacturing to develop Nebraska’s economic system.

The grant cash got here from the American Rescue Plan Act.