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This valuable information can be utilized by growers, farmers, and crop researchers who are interested in self-cultivation procedures. At the same time, such a system can alleviate the burden of daily plant photography for human photographers and crop researchers, while facilitating automated plant image acquisition for crop status monitoring. Given these considerations, the aim of this study was to develop an experimental, low-cost, 1-DOF linear robotic camera system specifically designed for automated plant photography. 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