In its decades-long quest to mimic life, robotics has never had much trouble duplicating its brute force. Machines have long been capable of moving vehicles, assembling chips, and reaching the far ...

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing a bee-like robot that can flap its wings up to 400 times per second. The project — led by principal investigator ...

Harvard's RoboBee will one day conduct artificial pollination and survey disaster zones, but first it has to stop crash landing. Reading time 2 minutes Imagine tiny robotic bees buzzing around fields ...

A new humanoid robot designed to support crop breeding has been unveiled in Beijing, highlighting the growing use of embodied AI in agriculture. GEAIR 2.0 was presented at the 33rd China Beijing Seed ...

Newswise — A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and ...

For millennia, developing resilient crops relied on pollination by nature or humans—making the process long and often costly. Now, scientists from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology ...