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IntelLIDrives’ XYZ Robot Helps Researchers to Develop Hardier, Weather-Resistant Crops

Watching a plant grow and develop roots can be a long and tiresome process. But seeing plant development, as it unfolds, can expose to what happens to a genetically modified organism and how certain plant gene modifications can make plants do certain things.

11 Jul 2017

Researchers Develop New Robotic System for Sustainable Agriculture

Researchers at the University of Bonn have developed a unique robotic system that eliminates the requirement for herbicides. The robot automatically detects weeds in a field and kills them using a short laser pulse. In sustainable agriculture, the use of herbicides is avoided as much as possible and this new, smart idea could benefit that particular field.

9 Jun 2017

New Report Analyzes Global Intelligent Agricultural Robot Market

In this report, The Global Intelligent Agricultural Robot Market is valued at USD XX million in 2016 and is expected to reach USD XX million by the end of 2022, growing at a CAGR of XX% between 2016 and 2022.

16 May 2017

Engineers Conduct Research Using a Customized FarmBot

If you’ve moseyed past the greenhouse on the south side of Owens Science Hall (OSS) after dark, you may have wondered what the purple incandescence radiating from one end is all about.

2 May 2017

FireFly Automatix ProSlab 155 Automated Turf Harvester Honored with Utah Innovation Award

The AgTech group snags a coveted Utah Innovation Award for its advances in agricultural technology.

26 Apr 2017

UK Government Makes Major Investment in Raw Food Handling Robotics

Funded by a £450,000 grant from the government’s Innovate UK, the endeavour is a joint venture between Olympus Automation Ltd. and the University of Lincoln. The public-private partnership will also focus on establishing essential hygiene and food safety measures, which will be necessary when further implementing robotic systems within the food production sector.

From OAL 26 Apr 2017

New B-Hyve Pro Smart Wi-Fi Sprinkler Controller from Hydro-Rain

Hydro-Rain, a leader in professional-grade irrigation products, today announced it has launched Hydro-Rain B-Hyve Pro Smart Wi-Fi Sprinkler Controller to allow irrigation professionals to remotely monitor, manage and optimize customers' landscapes.

19 Apr 2017

USDA Grant to Help University of California Researchers Refine Collaborative Robotic Technology

A nearly $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change the way crops are maintained worldwide, saving millions of gallons of water each year and taking precision agriculture to a whole new level.

15 Dec 2016

Researchers Speed up, Scale up Plant Research with Aerial Robotics

Although long-term, broad-scale ecological data are vital for plant research, they are most often not easy to collect manually.

1 Nov 2016

New Mobile Robot to Support Agri-Tech Research Activities at University of Lincoln Campus

Scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, have taken delivery of an advanced new mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments at the University's agricultural field station.

20 Oct 2016