双语新闻：荷兰农民引进人工智能机器人检测郁金香是否患病
Theo is an artificial intelligence, or AI, robot that looks for diseased flowers each spring.
西奥是一个人工智能机器人，每年春天都会寻找患病的花朵。
The work prevents viruses from spreading among the valuable plants. The robot looks for troubled tulip bulbs and destroys them if necessary. They are removed from the healthy ones in a processing center after the harvest.
这项工作可以防止病毒在这些有价值的植物中传播。机器人寻找有问题的郁金香球茎，并在必要时摧毁它们。在收获后，它们会在加工中心从健康的球茎中取出。
There are 45 robots like Theo working in the tulip fields of the Netherlands. Their job becomes important as the winter turns to spring and peak season nears. People come from around the world to see the colorful flowers.
有45个像西奥一样的机器人在荷兰的郁金香地里工作。随着冬去春来和旺季的临近，它们的工作变得非常重要。人们从世界各地来看五颜六色的花。
Allan Visser's family has been growing tulips for three generations. This is the second season that he has used a robot. He said it is very costly – the same as a sports car – about $200,000. In the past, knowledgeable farmers would walk the fields looking for tulips that showed signs of sickness.
艾伦·维瑟的家族已经种了三代郁金香。这是他使用机器人的第二季。他说，这款车非常昂贵——和跑车一样——大约20万美元。在过去，知识渊博的农民会在田地里寻找有疾病迹象的郁金香。
"I prefer to have the robot because a sports car doesn't take out the sick tulips from our field," he said. "Yeah, it is expensive, but there are less and less people who can really see the sick tulips."
他说:“我更喜欢机器人，因为跑车不会把我们地里生病的郁金香带走。”“是的，它很贵，但是越来越少的人能真正看到病态的郁金香。”
The robot has been trained to see the sick plants. Red stripes show up on the leaves of infected plants. The robots roll through the fields very slowly – about one kilometer per hour – looking for sick tulips.
这个机器人经过训练，可以看到生病的植物。受感染植物的叶子上出现红色条纹。机器人以每小时一公里的速度缓慢地穿过田地，寻找生病的郁金香。
Visser called the work "precision agriculture" as he explained how the robots work. He said the robots have cameras and take thousands of photos of the tulips. The AI software considers the photos and decides which tulips need to be killed.
维瑟在解释机器人的工作原理时，将这项工作称为“精准农业”。他说，这些机器人有摄像头，可以为郁金香拍摄数千张照片。人工智能软件会考虑这些照片，并决定哪些郁金香需要被杀死。
"The robot has learned to recognize this and treat it," Visser said.
“机器人已经学会了识别并处理它，”维瑟说。
H2L Robotics is the company that makes the robots. Erik de Jong is the managing director. He said the robots use GPS coordinates to be sure they are killing the correct tulip among many tulips in the field.
生产这些机器人的是H2L机器人公司。Erik de Jong是总经理。他说，机器人使用GPS坐标来确保它们在田地里的许多郁金香中杀死正确的郁金香。
He said all of the knowledge they use in the computer program that informs the robot comes from tulip farmers—farmers like Theo van der Voort. He is the farmer that the robot is named after.
他说，他们在计算机程序中使用的所有知识都来自郁金香种植者，比如西奥·范德沃特。他就是那个以机器人名字命名的农民。
Van der Voort retired after 52 years of looking for sick flowers in his fields.
范德沃特在田里寻找病花52年后退休了。
"It's fantastic," he said. "It sees just as much as I see."
“太棒了，”他说。“它看到的和我看到的一样多。”
西奥是一个人工智能机器人，每年春天都会寻找患病的花朵。
The work prevents viruses from spreading among the valuable plants. The robot looks for troubled tulip bulbs and destroys them if necessary. They are removed from the healthy ones in a processing center after the harvest.
这项工作可以防止病毒在这些有价值的植物中传播。机器人寻找有问题的郁金香球茎，并在必要时摧毁它们。在收获后，它们会在加工中心从健康的球茎中取出。
There are 45 robots like Theo working in the tulip fields of the Netherlands. Their job becomes important as the winter turns to spring and peak season nears. People come from around the world to see the colorful flowers.
有45个像西奥一样的机器人在荷兰的郁金香地里工作。随着冬去春来和旺季的临近，它们的工作变得非常重要。人们从世界各地来看五颜六色的花。
Allan Visser's family has been growing tulips for three generations. This is the second season that he has used a robot. He said it is very costly – the same as a sports car – about $200,000. In the past, knowledgeable farmers would walk the fields looking for tulips that showed signs of sickness.
艾伦·维瑟的家族已经种了三代郁金香。这是他使用机器人的第二季。他说，这款车非常昂贵——和跑车一样——大约20万美元。在过去，知识渊博的农民会在田地里寻找有疾病迹象的郁金香。
"I prefer to have the robot because a sports car doesn't take out the sick tulips from our field," he said. "Yeah, it is expensive, but there are less and less people who can really see the sick tulips."
他说:“我更喜欢机器人，因为跑车不会把我们地里生病的郁金香带走。”“是的，它很贵，但是越来越少的人能真正看到病态的郁金香。”
The robot has been trained to see the sick plants. Red stripes show up on the leaves of infected plants. The robots roll through the fields very slowly – about one kilometer per hour – looking for sick tulips.
这个机器人经过训练，可以看到生病的植物。受感染植物的叶子上出现红色条纹。机器人以每小时一公里的速度缓慢地穿过田地，寻找生病的郁金香。
Visser called the work "precision agriculture" as he explained how the robots work. He said the robots have cameras and take thousands of photos of the tulips. The AI software considers the photos and decides which tulips need to be killed.
维瑟在解释机器人的工作原理时，将这项工作称为“精准农业”。他说，这些机器人有摄像头，可以为郁金香拍摄数千张照片。人工智能软件会考虑这些照片，并决定哪些郁金香需要被杀死。
"The robot has learned to recognize this and treat it," Visser said.
“机器人已经学会了识别并处理它，”维瑟说。
H2L Robotics is the company that makes the robots. Erik de Jong is the managing director. He said the robots use GPS coordinates to be sure they are killing the correct tulip among many tulips in the field.
生产这些机器人的是H2L机器人公司。Erik de Jong是总经理。他说，机器人使用GPS坐标来确保它们在田地里的许多郁金香中杀死正确的郁金香。
He said all of the knowledge they use in the computer program that informs the robot comes from tulip farmers—farmers like Theo van der Voort. He is the farmer that the robot is named after.
他说，他们在计算机程序中使用的所有知识都来自郁金香种植者，比如西奥·范德沃特。他就是那个以机器人名字命名的农民。
Van der Voort retired after 52 years of looking for sick flowers in his fields.
范德沃特在田里寻找病花52年后退休了。
"It's fantastic," he said. "It sees just as much as I see."
“太棒了，”他说。“它看到的和我看到的一样多。”
