CARBONDALE — The days of a farmer wandering a field and inspecting the crops may be coming to an end, as two engineering students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have designed a robot to ...

When we think of agricultural robots, we tend to picture things that pick produce or apply chemicals. The SentiV is different, though, in that it's designed to check crops for problems while ...

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 ...

A system of robots that harvest and transport crops on their own without human assistance has been developed for use in agricultural facilities such as smart farms. The research team under Choi ...

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will someday release ...

Are we finally starting to see the adoption of labor-saving robots in agriculture? The short and unfulfilling summary answer is “It depends”. Undeniably, we are seeing clear signs of progress yet, ...