Dan Eichenlaub, founder and president of the Eichenlaub upscale landscape firm in Pittsburgh, is studying robotic, autonomous lawn mowers as an innovative solution to a labor shortage. He turned to Penn State agribusiness management students for help studying customer acceptance of the technology.
About 70 agribusiness management students are helping Eichenlaub, Inc., — an upscale landscape firm in Pittsburgh — study whether customers will accept robotic, autonomous lawnmowers.
About 70 agribusiness management students are helping Dan Eichenlaub — president of the upscale landscape firm Eichenlaub, Inc., in Pittsburgh — study whether consumers will accept autonomous lawnmowers.
About 70 agribusiness management students toured the landscape services firm's operation and HQ in Pittsburgh during a visit in Sept. 2018. As an experiential learning case study, the students are helping Eichenlaub study whether customers will accept autonomous lawn mowers.