Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming, reports The Star Online in Malaysia. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks....

Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming, reports the Los Angeles Times. The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks. Tractors...

A newly developed dexterous robot, which is equipped with flexible robotic fingers, could prove invaluable to both warehouses and agriculture, Verdict in the U.K. reports. Developed by Cambridge Consultants, the robot, which is named Hank, has a novel sensory system...

New precision drilling and planting robots have been developed by Coventry, England-based robotics specialist the Manufacturing Technology Centre in partnership with the Small Robot Company, reports Fresh Produce Journal. MTC engineers and scientists worked with the Hampshire-based agri-tech start-up to...

Hello Tractor, a firm in sub-Saharan Africa that connects tractor owners with farmers, is benefiting from several powerful new technologies maturing such as the IoT, cloud, and AI, reports Ryan Daws for IoT Tech News. “We start by informing the...

Beck’s precision farming platform FARMserver has partnered with Sentera to simplify the process of uploading drone imagery into their multifaceted precision farming technology. For users who are flying with Sentera’s FieldAgent, uploading drone images is now easier than ever...

The world market for precision agriculture is forecast to hit $12 billion by 2025, according to research company Global Market Insights, and many of the industry's largest participants are moving into the space, writes contributing writer Peter Guest for...

Agricultural drones are flying above while driverless machines transplant rows of rice seedlings in a farm in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, a major rice production base, according to a recent report on Shine.cn. The work is carried out on an...

Reading this month’s cover story on the move to mechanize the apple industry, I couldn’t help but think of the irony that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission, writes...

Agriculture ministers of the Group of 20 major economies Sunday adopted a statement that calls for promoting the use of artificial intelligence systems and robots in agriculture, according to an article on Nippon.com. "We've confirmed the importance of sharing...

Although the market for precision agriculture-based drones and robots was only at $2.5 million in 2018, a new report by BIS Research indicates the market (including both drones and robots) could explode to $23 billion in the next decade,...

I got to spend a fascinating couple of days in San Francisco at the March 19-20 World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, the U.S. edition of a semi-annual gathering of investors, inventors, and big thinkers in the agriculture technology space. The event...

With aging farmers, tighter immigration laws, and jobs nobody wants,  the agricultural industry is facing challenges that technology and robotics can solve, writes Denham Sadler at Information Age. And now is the time for investors and farmers to get...

Editor's note: Part Three of this three-part series on agricultural spraying drones features Rantizo. Be sure to also check out Part One (ADAMA/Tactical Robotics) and Part Two (Bayer CropScience). Drone technology in agriculture has moved rapidly though the technology hype...

An Iowa State University researcher says that the next step in the commercial drone world is to expand capacity by deploying fleets of interconnected drones, according to a piece published at News.IAState.edu. But, according to Borzoo Bonakdarpour, an assistant professor...

The United Arab Emirates imports at least 80% of its food. A startup in the capital Abu Dhabi wants to help change that, reports CNN. Launched in 2016, Pure Harvest Smart Farms is developing smart greenhouses, using technology to allow...

It's no longer science fiction. Aussie farmers are increasingly turning to tech for help in the global competition to increase production efficiency, according to Farm Weekly. A new generation of innovative thinkers is fast-tracking that progress through the national SproutX...

Very few studies have examined precision agriculture in Canada, but a new one from University of Lethbridge researchers has put some numbers on the benefits, reports Alberta Farm Express. And they’re big — both in terms of reducing inputs and...

Robot farming startup Iron Ox has announced that it’s selling robot-reared leafy greens in a single location in California, The Verge reports. Iron Ox is one of a number of companies trying to automate the human-intensive work of agriculture. It...