Indoor farms, also known as vertical farms, are popular among agricultural researchers and are expanding across the ...

The startup says the TerraScout can collect ultra-high-resolution imagery across an entire field and convert the data into ...

CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Innovation is often expanding, especially in agriculture. Now, robots are starting to take care of crops in the field. Robots are not new, and many are running around on the ...

On industrial sites and large farms, critical work often happens in fields, hillsides and overgrown areas that are difficult or dangerous for people to access. CMU researchers are developing off-road ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

FARMER CITY, Ill. — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40 feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at ...

How Nate Beckett describes Planted Solar’s robots sounds like the start of a bad joke: What happens when you marry what looks like an industrial-sized toothpick dispenser with a similarly-sized nail ...

Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

There is a hole in the argument that American workers will replace immigrants. For many jobs, the cheaper and more likely replacement is a robot.