{"id":993683,"date":"2026-02-19T08:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993683"},"modified":"2026-02-19T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T03:29:14","slug":"ai-is-harvesting-potatoes-checking-exam-papers-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/19\/ai-is-harvesting-potatoes-checking-exam-papers-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is harvesting potatoes &amp; checking exam papers in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARNAL: Farmer Bir Virk tapped the iPad mounted beside his tractor&#8217;s steering wheel and switched the vehicle to automatic mode. The machine moved forward and began harvesting potatoes on its own in the fields of Karnal, a city in northern India. <\/p>\n<p>Some 145 kilometers (90 miles) away in the country&#8217;s capital of New Delhi, educator Swetank Pandey employed similar automation at his coaching academy. He used algorithms to scan and grade handwritten exam papers from candidates for India&#8217;s competitive civil services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARNAL: Farmer Bir Virk tapped the iPad mounted beside his tractor&#8217;s steering wheel and switched the vehicle to automatic mode. The machine moved forward and began harvesting potatoes on its own in the fields of Karnal, a city in northern India. Some 145 kilometers (90 miles) away in the country&#8217;s capital of New Delhi, educator Swetank Pandey employed similar automation at his coaching academy. He used algorithms to scan and grade handwritten exam papers from candidates for India&#8217;s competitive civil services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}