Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...

A new open-source field robot offers strawberry and cereal crop growers a cost-effective alternative for precision spraying.

A giant robotic centipede could soon crawl out of the lab and into vineyards and blueberry farms in the United States. Inspired by nature’s long, slender, and wiggly movers, Ground Control Robotics ...

STORY: Meet CLAWS, a robot created to make the future of farming more sustainable. :: Earth Rover The prototype is designed for two main tasks: weeding and crop monitoring. It’s a combination of ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

A team of North Dakota State University students designed an advanced robot to aid organic farming, using AI and cameras for weed control and security. NDSU Ag Engineering and Biosystems Engineering ...

According to the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA), soybean and corn farmers would lose almost 50% of their crops to unwanted weeds if there were no herbicides or alternative control methods used ...

Next time you buy organic fruits, veggies, or nuts, it might be thanks to a giant weed-whacking robot. Semi-autonomous farming machines are navigating agricultural fields across California and Arizona ...

While manually hoeing weeds out of crops can be very time- and labor-intensive, spraying those crops with herbicides is definitely not eco-friendly. A German consortium is developing a third choice, ...

The agricultural robots market offers opportunities in automation for enhanced productivity, driven by population growth and food demand. IoT integration, government support, and mechanization trends ...

For all the talk about self-driving cars taking over our roads and literally relegating human drivers to the back seat, it’s in the ancient practice of agriculture where autonomous, artificial ...

On a field in England, three robots have been given a mission: to find and zap weeds with electricity before planting seeds in the cleared soil. The robots — named Tom, Dick and Harry — were developed ...