Oct 11, 2023 | Agriculture, Featured, Robots
Autonomous farm robots guided by GPS can plant and harvest multiple crops in close proximity, enabling beneficial interactions between different plants and potentially boosting biodiversity. Strip cropping, which involves partitioning fields into narrow bands...
Aug 9, 2023 | Agriculture, Robots
British agricultural technology start-up Small Robot Co. has invented a mobile delta autonomous mobile robot that can weed agricultural fields without using chemicals. The wheeled robot is equipped with three delta robots that independently position...
Apr 13, 2023 | Agriculture, Drones, Robots
Drones are being used for an ever widening range of agricultural applications enabled by new technology and diminishing regulatory constraints. Most current drone options are small, battery powered units and when equipped with cameras or other sensors and they are...
Apr 6, 2023 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles
Tesla may be synonymous with semi-autonomous cars on the road, but self-driving tractors are taking over fields. A new study finds that global positioning satellite (GPS) systems are used on over 40 percent of all US farm and ranch acreage for on-farm...
Mar 2, 2023 | Agriculture
The small tomatoes on shelves of supermarkets in Japan may look like normal fruit, but they are actually genetic pioneers. In late 2021, Japanese company Sanatech Seed began selling special tomatoes that had been genetically modified to produce high levels of...
Jan 26, 2023 | Agriculture, Autonomous Vehicles
Agricultural equipment giant John Deere has rolled out plans to develop autonomous tractors. The vehicles take on many farming duties, including plowing, planting and applying fertilizer. As Jonathan Ahl of Harvest Public Media reports, not all farmers are...
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