Earlier this year, on a farm in southern New Mexico, a new kind of worker spent each day traveling slowly up and down the rows and rows of crops. On board, its 12 high-res cameras pointed at the ...

James Johnson has witnessed the wrath of industrial agriculture. For decades, he and his family used fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide to achieve optimal yields on their 3,100-acre farm in New ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. It’s not your ordinary weed-killer. A ...

Is a laser beam the future of farming? A raised rectangular vehicle, slightly smaller than a compact sedan, rolls across farmland and shoots concentrated bursts of infrared light into the rows.

Carbon Robotics built a four-wheel state-of-the-art robot that makes farming more fun and weed control easy. The Weeder is packed with GPS, high-resolution cameras, lasers, and a supercomputer and can ...

OSAKA, Japan — Farms might soon have a new helper that never needs a lunch break. Agricultural robots are inching closer to becoming practical farm hands, thanks to a new navigation system developed ...

To meet farmers’ demands for more sustainable and profitable growing practices, Verdant Robotics announced the expansion of its robot-as-a-service (RaaS) model to ensure access for more specialty crop ...

No longer science fiction, farm robots are already here--and they have created two possible extremes for the future of agriculture and its impacts on the environment, argues agricultural economist ...

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