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New Robotic Solution Wins Agribusiness Innovation Prize

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who recently won the Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize in 2021, got a good indication that their efforts were paying off when a judge offered to have his company associate join them for an early demonstration.

3 May 2021

New Small-Scale Robots can Fertilize, Weed, Cull Single Plants in Field

A gardener expecting the juiciest summer tomato crop might tend to every plant in a plot. However, that may not be the case with a farmer who toils to feed the world.

30 Apr 2021

Researchers Evaluate the Use of Drones for Spraying Pesticides in Farms

Besides enabling more potent smartphones and higher download speeds while riding the subway, cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, and wireless communications are on the verge of revolutionizing well-established industrial fields.

16 Apr 2021

Betting on Drones as Smart Agricultural Tools for Pesticide Use in Farms

Researchers have assessed whether drones can spray pesticides better than conventional technologies in terms of cost, capacity, and management efficiency.

16 Apr 2021

AppHarvest Acquires Root AI and Its Robotic Universal Harvester to Increase Efficiency of Indoor Farms

AppHarvest, Inc., a leading AgTech company and Certified B Corp focused on farming more sustainably using 90 percent less water than open-field agriculture and only recycled rainwater, announced today that it has acquired Root AI, an artificial intelligence farming startup that creates intelligent robots to help manage high-tech indoor farms.

12 Apr 2021

European Project Releases Surveys Aimed at the Robotics Community

Robotics4EU, a three-year project funded under the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, is releasing two surveys to support the project implementation and its goal: to boost a wider adoption of robotics in Europe.

22 Mar 2021

I-Seed Project to Develop Bioinspired Innovative Robots Mimicking Plant Seeds Behavior

How important is technology to understand climate change and protect the environment? I-Seed project will combine bioinspired soft robotics, material science and artificial intelligence to develop new innovative robots mimicking plant seeds behaviour and able to monitor soil and climate parameters, like the presence of pollutants, humidity, CO2 levels, temperature and quality of waters. These innovative "intelligent seeds", named I-Seed robots, will be biodegradable, thus respecting the environment.

4 Mar 2021

Fixposition Showcases New Vision-RTK Solution for Challenging Scenarios in Precision Agriculture at FIRA 2020

At this year’s FIRA virtual event (December 8-10, 2020) Fixposition is showcasing the Vision-RTK sensor, furthering precise positioning and autonomy in the field of agricultural robotics.

From Fixposition AG 9 Dec 2020

Worm-Like, Soil-Swimming Robots to Explore the Below-Ground Environment of Plants

Crop scientists over the years have learned a great deal about how plants grow above the ground, but much less is known about roots and their soil interactions. Now, a Cornell University project will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.

25 Nov 2020

Machine Learning Helps to Map Invasive Gamba Grass from Space

Researchers from CSIRO, Charles Darwin University and The University of Western Australia have developed a machine-learning approach that reliably detects invasive gamba grass from high-resolution satellite imagery.

19 Nov 2020