Sep 4, 2025 | Agriculture, Drones
For millennia humans have tried to scare wolves away from their livestock. Most of them didn’t have drones. But a team of biologists working near the California-Oregon border do, and they’re using them to blast AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” movie clips and...
Aug 28, 2025 | Agriculture, Robots, Space
A bee-like robot currently under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is part of a new generation of bots inspired by creepy crawlies. The machine, which weighs less than a paperclip, can flap its wings up to 400 times a second and has...
Aug 7, 2025 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Agriculture has always been the backbone of human civilization, providing the sustenance needed to support societies and economies worldwide. As the global population continues to expand, the demand for food production increases, pushing the agricultural sector to...
Jun 24, 2025 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles, Electric Vehicles
The Spanish startup Voltrac is developing a fully electric autonomous tractor, designed for both agricultural and logistics applications. Field testing has already started on Spanish farms. The Voltrac is a fully electric tractor with individual wheel motors...
May 15, 2025 | 5G, Agriculture, Metaverse
A review of digital technologies in the International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology suggests that integration of mobile, 5G, wireless and the so-called metaverse could be a turning point in global agriculture. The use of this kind of...
Apr 24, 2025 | Agriculture, Robots
Tiny flying robots could perform such useful tasks as pollinating crops inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment. The latest robo-bug from an MIT lab, inspired by the anatomy of the bee,...
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