According to Geert Hekkert, there are good reasons why autonomous weeders may not become significantly cheaper.

The primary aim of robotics is to relieve farmers of physically demanding and time-intensive tasks, improve operational ...

Much has been made of the AI race between the U.S. and China as the two national powers jockey for leadership in the world's fastest-growing industry. To some Western observers, China's progress in ...

Strawberry fields will forever exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...

The world's biggest centipede, at potentially over 12 inches long, certainly earns the "giant" in Amazonian giant centipede. This particular species of minibeast has 42 legs, and while all centipede ...

Thanks to a new technology, agricultural robots may be getting a serious skill improvement in tending to crops. SonicBoom, a sensing technology developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

When labor shortages, rising costs, and climate change collide can technology step in to save the world's oldest industry? Join Professor Simon Pearson, Head of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food ...

Sprinklers water a lettuce field in California’s Imperial Valley, a vital part of America’s huge agricultural sector, in February 2023 – Copyright AFP FOCKE ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...

A worker holding a large tray of leafy greens in a large autonomous farm field - China Science/X Much has been made of the AI race between the U.S. and China as the two national powers jockey for ...