Modern farming embraces drones and robots to monitor crops, detect problems early and apply treatments with pinpoint accuracy ...

Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side. And the four co-founders of the robotic, indoor, vertical farming startup RoBotany could next ...

Robots powered by AI technology being developed in Ireland could be answer to labour shortages and growing population that needs fed ...

FARMING MEETS SCI-FI: The LaserWeeder G2 builds on the success of its predecessors to bring submillimeter weed control to a wider range of farms, crops and soil types. CHIPS ACT: Former Vice President ...

Researchers at Wageningen University & Research are working on a new generation of farm robotics: autonomous machines that ...

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 ...

Harvest robots are proving capable of cutting truss tomatoes, although crop characteristics and growing conditions are ...

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 ...

FARMER CITY, Ill. — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40 feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight ...