A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...

Jacobsen and Heidi Codling, from the Idaho Falls-based College of Eastern Idaho, have been visiting high school STEM ...

Texas A&M University System researchers are working to establish a configurable, adaptive and scalable swarm system consisting of unmanned ground and aerial robots designed to assist in collaborative ...

Technological advancements are constantly changing sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no different. While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and farming is facing a bunch of necessities. There’s a major worker shortage. Farm land is shrinking while world population growth calls for higher food ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A semiautonomous robot may soon be roaming agricultural fields gathering and transmitting real-time data about the growth and development of crops, information that crop breeders -- ...

Synecoculture, a new farming method, involves growing mixed plant species together in high density. However, it requires complex operation since varying species with different growing seasons and ...

REDDING, Calif., July 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market research report titled, 'Agriculture Robots Market by Offering (Hardware, Software), Deployment (Indoor, Outdoor), Automation ...

Robots have the potential to change the way we grow food, making the process more efficient and environmentally friendly. Robots can be deployed to fight pests instead of using pesticides, can reduce ...