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Can AI and robots really transform farming?

Robots are hunting pests with UV light at 2AM. Cotton fields run with almost no humans. Small bots are helping farmers inside ...
It’s a cloudy day in early October and I’m circling my rented Jeep Wrangler around a maze of industrial buildings in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is a small city 30 miles north of Cincinnati with a ...
Fifth-generation grower Bill Kercher says robotic weeding using Greenfield Robotics devices fits into his family’s regenerative farming practices. A new label appearing on Sunrise Select sweet corn in ...
Strawberry fields will forever 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 ...
Element gen2 Robot at Work in early season cotton fields Aigen's solar-powered Element gen2 robot navigates between rows of cotton at Bowles Farming Company in California's Central Valley. The ...
In 2026, Marien and Joos Poppe removed weeds within the row using an Andela Robot Weeder and between the rows using an ...
I spent three months testing WORX's $3,000 4WD robot mower on the hills, ruts, and obstacles of my working farm. Now it ...
The world's biggest centipede, at potentially over 12 inches long, certainly earns the "giant" in Amazonian giant centipede. This particular species of minibeast has 42 legs, and while all centipede ...
Dublin, May 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Milking Robots Market: Analysis by System Type, Herd Size, Offering, and Region with Growth Forecasts to 2030" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets ...
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 ...
As an investor in the ag-tech space for the last decade, I would argue that 2020 was a tipping point. The pandemic accelerated a shift that was already underway to deploy automation in the farming ...