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

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Innovation is often expanding, especially in agriculture. Now, robots are starting to take care of crops in the field. Robots are not new, and many are running around on the ...

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

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

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

As part of our renewed effort to bring you the latest information on cutting edge technology and machinery we’re featuring regular Q&A discussions with several handpicked ag tech startups. For this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Greenfield Robotics, a Kansas-based company, is hoping to move agriculture away from herbicides. They’ve developed robots to take on a labor-intensive process — cutting weeds down. Three yellow, ...

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