Farm robots can mitigate labor shortages by automating tasks like planting, harvesting, and weeding, while also supporting ...

The International Forum for Agricultural Robotics, or FIRA, has people coming from all over the world to Salinas to demonstrate what their robots can do.From planting, to weeding, to harvesting ...

The Farm Robotics Challenge, the only collegiate agricultural robotics competition of its kind, is officially launching its ...

The integration of robotics in farming operations allows for 24-hour work cycles, precision application of resources, and reduced exposure of human workers to potentially hazardous conditions.

Jan Jacobs is the human-robot interaction design lead for Lely, a maker of agricultural machinery. Founded in 1948 in Maassluis, Netherlands, Lely deployed its first Astronaut milking robot in the ...

Drones flying over fields to assess crop status. Tractors steering autonomously, guided by soil maps to deliver tailored ...

This isn’t just the friendly “technology makes everything faster, cheaper, and more efficient” kind of story, writes guest ...

Gone are the days when farming solely depended on the hard work of cattle and humans. A revolution is unfolding in rural Shanghai, where agricultural robots are taking over tasks that were once ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Slowly, but surely, a robot named BenchBot 3.0 is making moves at NC State, passing repeatedly over 500 pots of different plant species for artificial intelligence (AI) to ...

Robot ‘ducks’ “People have been flowing out of Niigata to big cities such as Tokyo, so there are no young people to work in paddy fields,” says Yuya Takimoto, an assistant professor of ...

Robots and lasers that work on 30,000 acres of lettuce or broccoli may not yet be applicable or economical for millions of acres of soybeans, he said. However, their appeal is growing.