{"id":78513,"date":"2025-08-13T01:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78513\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:26:08","slug":"chinese-scientists-develop-worlds-first-full-process-intelligent-breeding-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78513\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists develop world’s first full-process intelligent breeding robot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t (Xinhua<\/a>) 08:42, August 13, 2025<\/p>\n

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Robot GEAIR carries on hybrid pollination work at a greenhouse in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 29, 2024. (IGDB of the CAS\/Handout via Xinhua)<\/p>\n

BEIJING, Aug. 12 (Xinhua) — Chinese scientists have recently developed the world’s first robot capable of conducting full-process breeding, highlighting deep integration of biotechnology and AI technologies in the agricultural intelligent breeding sector.<\/p>\n

GEAIR, the name of this new AI-based robot model, is expected to facilitate a breeding shift from experience-driven to precision agriculture. The study was published on Monday in the journal Cell, said the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).<\/p>\n

A scene once limited to a science fiction movie has now become a reality in a greenhouse, where GEAIR accurately identified a flower and extended its robotic arms to gently complete hybrid pollination. It shuttled effectively among the flowers and precisely carried out the whole breeding process.<\/p>\n

“AI and robots offer vast opportunities in shifting hybrid breeding toward precision agriculture to enhance crop yields, reduce costs and promote sustainable practices,” said Xu Cao, an IGBD researcher.<\/p>\n

Hybrid breeding, which seeks to ensure the “superior birth and raising” of crops — is an important way to enhance both crop yield and quality. However, massive repetitive cross-pollination operations are time-consuming and labor-intensive, according to Xu.<\/p>\n

Compared with the process involved in producing well-known hybrid rice varieties, GEAIR can apply new-generation breeding technologies, such as a speed-breeding approach, to achieve rapid customized breeding of superior varieties.<\/p>\n

Through AI visual recognition and positioning technologies, GEAIR is able to accurately move among crops to perform cross-pollination operations — thereby enhancing breeding efficiency.<\/p>\n

For instance, in soybean breeding, this robotized hybrid breeding option can achieve rapid creation of stigma-exserted male sterile lines, which is expected to break through a bottleneck in soybean hybrid breeding and significantly increase per-unit yield, Xu revealed.<\/p>\n

“Our new study initiated an intelligent breeding model of integrated biotechnology, AI and robot labor — marking China’s successful pioneering efforts in the construction of a closed-loop technology system for intelligent robotized hybrid breeding,” Xu said.<\/p>\n

“It also shows the application prospects of ‘AI for science’ in the sector of biological breeding,” he added.<\/p>\n

The study team has demonstrated the potential of GEAIR in boosting efficiency and lowering costs through automated, faster breeding of climate-resilient crops, said Yang Minghao, an associate researcher of the Institute of Automation of the CAS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Researcher Xu Cao (2nd R) adjusts the robot GEAIR with colleagues at a laboratory in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chinese scientists have recently developed the world’s first robot capable of conducting full-process breeding, highlighting deep integration of biotechnology and AI technologies in the agricultural intelligent breeding sector.<\/p>\n

GEAIR, the name of this new AI-based robot model, is expected to facilitate a breeding shift from experience-driven to precision agriculture. The study was published on Monday in the journal Cell, said the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).(Xinhua\/Jin Liwang)<\/p>\n

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Robot GEAIR conducts a hybrid pollination experiment at a laboratory in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chinese scientists have recently developed the world’s first robot capable of conducting full-process breeding, highlighting deep integration of biotechnology and AI technologies in the agricultural intelligent breeding sector.<\/p>\n

GEAIR, the name of this new AI-based robot model, is expected to facilitate a breeding shift from experience-driven to precision agriculture. The study was published on Monday in the journal Cell, said the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).(Xinhua\/Jin Liwang)<\/p>\n

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Robot GEAIR conducts a hybrid pollination experiment at a laboratory in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chinese scientists have recently developed the world’s first robot capable of conducting full-process breeding, highlighting deep integration of biotechnology and AI technologies in the agricultural intelligent breeding sector.<\/p>\n

GEAIR, the name of this new AI-based robot model, is expected to facilitate a breeding shift from experience-driven to precision agriculture. The study was published on Monday in the journal Cell, said the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).(Xinhua\/Jin Liwang)<\/p>\n

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Researcher Xu Cao checks the robot GEAIR at a laboratory in the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 12, 2025.<\/p>\n

Chinese scientists have recently developed the world’s first robot capable of conducting full-process breeding, highlighting deep integration of biotechnology and AI technologies in the agricultural intelligent breeding sector.<\/p>\n

GEAIR, the name of this new AI-based robot model, is expected to facilitate a breeding shift from experience-driven to precision agriculture. The study was published on Monday in the journal Cell, said the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).(Xinhua\/Jin Liwang)<\/p>\n

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