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USDA Grant to Help University of California Researchers Refine Collaborative Robotic Technology

A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change the way crops are maintained worldwide, saving millions of gallons of water each year and taking precision agriculture to a whole new level.

15 Dec 2016

Researchers Speed up, Scale up Plant Research with Aerial Robotics

Although long-term, broad-scale ecological data are vital for plant research, they are most often not easy to collect manually.

1 Nov 2016

New Mobile Robot to Support Agri-Tech Research Activities at University of Lincoln Campus

Scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, have taken delivery of an advanced new mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments at the University's agricultural field station.

20 Oct 2016

Network of Computers Can Help Identify Specific Plant Diseases with High Accuracy Using Smartphones

A network of computers fed a large image dataset can learn to recognize specific plant diseases with a high degree of accuracy, potentially paving the way for field-based crop-disease identification using smartphones, according to a team of researchers at Penn State and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland.

5 Oct 2016

CNH Industrial’s Concept Autonomous Tractor Technology Can Revolutionize Future of World Agriculture

Better use of labor, integration into current machinery fleets, plus the flexibility to work unmanned around the clock with real time data monitoring – and, in the future, the ability to automatically respond to weather events.

31 Aug 2016

Oregon UAS Future Farm to Host First Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm will host the first Ag Drone Rodeo in Pendleton, Oregon on August 18 & 19. The two days will feature real-world Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) crop survey flight demos and post-flight data analysis presentations from leading companies in digital agriculture.

3 Aug 2016

New Webinar Series on Using Drones for Agricultural Purposes

The UAS in Agriculture Learning Network, an eXtension network for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in agriculture, has made available a webinar series on using drones or UAS for agricultural purposes.

3 Jun 2016

UCLA’s Roboticists Create Advanced Humanoid Robots

Dennis Hong, director of UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa), with his graduate and undergraduate students, have designed innovative robots that can extinguish fires on ships, enter power plants to stop radiation leaks, climb up construction sites to do risky inspections, and safely pass through battlefields. Some robots can even play soccer, one tiny robot can break-dance. These robots come in different sizes and shapes, with various numbers of legs.

25 Mar 2016

Scientists Develop Robotic Grafting System for Plants

A machine with hands of steel has revolutionized the speed and efficiency of the once-tedious process of plant grafting.

16 Mar 2016

Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Agribotix for Developing Superior Agricultural Drones

Based on its recent analysis of the precision agriculture (PA) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Agribotix LLC with the 2016 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Enabling Technology Leadership. Agribotix's Enduro™ and Hornet™ agricultural drones, along with its FarmLens™ data analytics platform, have emerged the ideal PA solution set. Using these innovations, farmers can increase crop yield and improve quality, and make farming more efficient and profitable.

2 Mar 2016