AMES, Iowa – The coronavirus pandemic has shut down much of everyday life, but one researcher at Iowa State University continues to work uninterrupted in a laboratory for hours a day, painstakingly watering and measuring plants to study the effects of drought.

This research project doesn’t violate social distancing guidelines because it all depends on a robot that was designed to work as autonomously as possible. The project is called Robotic Assay for Drought, or RoAD, and Yanhai Yin, chair of genetics, development and cell biology, said the research is still churning out valuable data, even in the middle of a pandemic.

The complete article, "ISU robot still reports to work, even during a pandemic," is available to read on the ISU News Service page.