Attendees at the DOT Demo Day on March 27 at the University of Arizona Maricopa Research Farm got an up-close look at DOT Technology Corp.'s autonomous farm robot. Attendees at the DOT demo day held at...

Most farmers can tell at a glance if their crop is ready to harvest. Josh Lessing has a robot that can do that, too, reports Hiawatha Bray for the Boston Globe. Lessing is cofounder of startup in Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.,...

Roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies, reports Matt Simon for Wired. There’s the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water. Now comes the apple-picking robot, a metallic farmer that just graduated from...

Modern technologies have revolutionized every industry sector and agriculture is no exception. Smart farming using IoT will give rise to more efficient farming techniques and transform the agricultural sector, writes Naveen Roshi on BBN Times. The advent of modern technologies...

Is it possible for a couple of words on one question in the U.S. Census to create data that misleads lawmakers, regulators, and the general public about the availability of broadband internet access in Rural America? A recent report...

Increasingly regulation, combined with bad press for drones, is causing a mild decline in recreational drone sales, so DJI of China is directing more attention to promoting drones for agriculture, according to Drone Reviews and News. The Financial Times is...

Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series on precision irrigation by Caleb Midgley of Iteris. For the final installment of this irrigation scheduling blog series – please read part one and part two if you haven’t already –...

Hortau, a Lévis, Québec-based provider of precision irrigation management services for agriculture, has closed a $20 million financing, writes Kirk Falconer at The PE Hub Network. The round was backed by Export Development Canada, which invested $7 million, and Fonds...

We traditionally think of infrastructure as the roads and bridges that connect our cities and people with one another, writes Lisa R. Youngers on TheHill.com. While these are critical components of any nation’s infrastructure, in our increasingly digital world,...

Regardless of whether you are an independent flier or a corporate entity using drones for various tasks, mapping is one of the biggest utilizations for drone technology to date, writes Mark Sheehan fo Commerical UAV News. Thankfully, there are...

Leading global crop protection company ADAMA Ltd. has partnered with Tactical Robotics Ltd., an innovative Israeli aerospace company, in a joint feasibility study for a High-Payload, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for aerial spraying. Tactical Robotics has developed the Cormorant, a...

Two powerful trends – the Internet of Things (IoT) and data analytics – are generating lots of press for their industrial and infrastructure applications, writes Rich Quinnell for EE Times. But there is another application space that is quietly...

To hear the early adopters for drone technology tell it, low-flying platforms equipped with multi-spectral sensors can deliver high-resolution field data on everything from the performance of irrigation systems to soil maps that tell growers where and when to...

The agriculture ministry of Japan has unveiled a plan to promote the spread of drones for agriculture to cope with the aging of farmers and shortages of successors of farms in the country, reports The Japan News. In the plan...

Prospera, an Israeli ag-tech company, plans to turn 60,000 irrigation pivots in open fields into artificial intelligence (AI) autonomous growing machines that can operate 24/7, writes Jennifer Kite-Powell on Forbes.com. Through a new partnership with irrigation company Valley, the...

Montana State Representative Daniel Zolnikov uses his home state as an object example of how the FCC is, despite its best efforts, likely understating the scope of the gap in broadband availability for rural America. Zolnikov (R-Billings) represents House...

Proagrica, the leading provider of integrated data connectivity solutions for the agricultural sector, is on a mission: to guide the industry towards 100% connectivity and embrace the changes and benefits brought by the new data revolution. “The industry is changing,”...

Mauricio Nicocelli Netto and his colleagues from IMAmt got a first-hand look at the Swarmbot 5, which started tests this week all over Australia. In the last week of February, me and two colleagues from Brazil's...

The MicaSense RedEdge-MX multi spectral sensor senseFly and MicaSense today announce a new dual drone and integrated sensor solution for in-depth crop analysis—the senseFly eBee X with MicaSense RedEdge-MX. “We know from agricultural customers such as agronomists,...

The end of the world is coming … eventually. Shortly before his death last year, famed physicist Stephen Hawking left us with several rather grim predictions for the future of Earth and life on it. At the top of...