CHUALAR, Calif. – Looking like the ungainly combination of a Transformer and Edward Scissorhands, the robot slowly trundles across the field of tiny plants. It uses three high-resolution cameras to ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian agriculture startup Solinftec plans to accelerate deliveries of its farming robot in Brazil and in the United States, CEO Britaldo Hernandez said in an interview, in a ...

If you crossed WALL-E with a floor lamp, it might look a little like the PhytoPatholoBot. These robots aren't roving through space or decorating a... These robots could fix grape farmers' labor woes ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He's heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he's strong ...

Innovation rush aims to help farmers, rich and poor, beat climate change In decades to come, African farmers may pool their money to buy small robot vehicles to weed their fields or drones that can ...

The US is facing an agricultural worker shortage, along with aging farm owners, at the same time it juggles demand in food from a global population boom. If we're being blunt, those elements added ...

TOKYO - Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. Prof.