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

No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here--and they have created two possible extremes for the future of agriculture and its impacts on the environment, argues agricultural economist ...

Researchers are optimistic about its applications. Scientists develop incredible robots that could revolutionize farming: 'Sensing technology' first appeared on The Cool Down.

While the technology producing agricultural robots is rapidly approaching critical mass, a debate ensues over what forms of farming this tech should promote.

Weeding robots, for instance, can accurately distinguish weeds from crops, and snip out weeds while leaving crops untouched. A weeding robot works incessantly for eight hours following one hour of ...

TRIC Robotics is bringing automation to strawberry production with a fleet of fully autonomous field robots that replace ...

How robots will revolutionize farming We are perhaps a few short years from a day when you will drive past a farm or walk past a community garden and see a robot working the ground.

A farming robot moves in between two rows of plants in a greenhouse in Fuzhou, capital of Fujian province. [Photo provided to China Daily] While industrial robots have become a common sight in ...

Farm robots in the classroom The biological and agricultural engineering robotics team at Kansas State University knows a thing or two about agricultural robots. They’ve won national robotics ...

Farm robots must be able to operate reliably amid dust, dirt, wind and varied temperatures. Another problem faced by robots aimed at picking fruits is that they cannot see through leaves or in the ...

On a growing number of dairy farms, cows, not people, decide when they need to be milked. Robots can do the job day or night. For some farm families, the robots free them from rigid milking schedules.

A flock of seagulls. A school of fish. A gaggle of geese. Collective nouns in English are a lot of fun. However, when it comes to a collection of robots, we’re missing the mark, especially in ...