A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

Part of Cornell’s settlement with the federal government is a $30 million investment into agricultural research, which may ...

AI-driven platforms increasingly assist farmers in choosing when to plant, irrigate, fertilize, or harvest. These systems ...

Miami University College of Engineering and Computing’s Robotics and Automation Club received a grant of $12,000 from the Women’s Giving Circle to help fund their recent work applying robotics to ...

Aarush Muthukrishnan, a Pennsylvania 4-H member, won first place in the national 4-H AI in Agriculture Challenge for ...

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In a rice field in Niigata prefecture, Japan, a small robot trundles along on big orange wheels, navigating a ridge edging the paddy while hacking away at weeds. This compact machine’s work is ...

With an ever-increasing global population, the agricultural community can no longer rely on human-only cultivation and harvesting for the current and future demand for food. Machine harvesting has ...

Robots have the potential to change the way we grow food, making the process more efficient and environmentally friendly. Robots can be deployed to fight pests instead of using pesticides, can reduce ...

It’s not yet life on the farm, but North Dakota State University researchers at the Big Iron farm show in West Fargo, North Dakota, Sept. 13-15, 2022, were demonstrating a research “weedbot,” or robot ...