California-based Hippo Harvest says it can slash the water needed to grow the leafy greens that round out a healthy diet by more than 90% and use only precisely placed fertilizer with no runoff in ...

Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human ...

At the ACRES cultivation company in ‘s-Gravenzande, the Netherlands, a pilot is underway with an Artemy harvesting robot for ...

The company was able to buy existing robots designed for the warehouse and logistics sector and fit them with custom-built attachments and machine learning software coded in house. The foggy west ...

What does the future of farming look like? If Japanese lettuce production company, Spread, has anything to do about it, it’s going to involve robots. Spread has apparently made the world’s first farm ...

Good news for the agricultural industry. Robotics have become more affordable, smarter and easier to operate. Soft fruits like strawberries can be picked mechanically now. Florida-based Harvest CROO ...

Humans have been cultivating plants for some 10,000 years and, for much of that time, we’ve used beasts of burden to help tend the fields. Just last century, humans turned from animal strength to ...

Automation-intensive sectors such as the automotive industry are not the only ones to rely on robots. In more and more agricultural settings, automation systems are superseding strenuous manual labor.

An automated strawberry-harvesting robot at Wish Farms in Plant City has shown progress toward full deployment for the upcoming strawberry season, its inventors say. Gary Wishnatzki, a ...

Researchers in Shropshire, England have managed to sow and harvest a field of barley using nothing but robots. Many aspects of farming have now been automated, but rarely is the entire process — ...

Growers concerned about workforce shortages in the wake of Brexit could soon have an alternative solution - robots. Pioneering work at the University of Plymouth is bringing researchers together with ...

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers. A vegetable-picking robot that uses ...