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Disruptive innovation is seldom taken seriously in its infancy. Computer pioneers in the 1970s famously downplayed how much consumers would want microcomputers in their homes until Apple invented the personal computer. Newspaper publishers scoffed at internet advertising as “trading dollars...

As demographics continue to shift and change labor markets around the world, Bayer is looking for technology solutions that can help replace manpower that applies its crop protection products. Dr. Harald Printz, Bayer CropScience Japan's president and representative director, along...

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...

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...

“Smart farming,” which utilizes cutting-edge robotics and artificial intelligence, could hold the key to an agricultural resurgence in a nation of graying farmers and a general population reluctant to toil in the soil, according to an article by The...

A team in Saga, Japan, has successfully developed Agridrone, which will seek out and terminate 50 different types of pests. Agridrone was created in a joint project of Saga University, Saga Prefecture, and IT firm OPTiM....

From Japan comes a possible solution for the all this heavy lifting — the wearable robot. The concept comes courtesy of Shigeki Toyama and colleagues from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. The aptly dubbed "farming robot suit" is...