  Robotic pollinators not only can aid farmers by providing more cost effective
and stable methods for pollinating plants but also benefit crop production in
environments not suitable for bees such as greenhouses, growth chambers, and in
outer space. Robotic pollination requires a high degree of precision and
autonomy but few systems have addressed both of these aspects in practice. In
this paper, a fully autonomous robot is presented, capable of precise
pollination of individual small flowers. Experimental results show that the
proposed system is able to achieve a 93.1% detection accuracy and a 76.9%
'pollination' success rate tested with high-fidelity artificial flowers.
