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Use of Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture Comes with Substantial Risks, Researchers Warn

Imagine a field of wheat that extends to the horizon, being grown for flour that will be made into bread to feed cities' worth of people. Imagine that all authority for tilling, planting, fertilising, monitoring and harvesting this field has been delegated to artificial intelligence: algorithms that control drip-irrigation systems, self-driving tractors and combine harvesters, clever enough to respond to the weather and the exact needs of the crop.

24 Feb 2022

RoboSense Reached Strategic Partnership with Horizon Robotics to Accelerate Large-Scale Implementation of High-Level Autonomous Driving Solutions

RoboSense announced a strategic partnership with Horizon Robotics, a global pioneer in edge AI computing platforms.

From RoboSense 24 Dec 2021

Robotic ‘Harvesting as a Service’ Proves Cost-Effective in Trials by Fieldwork Robotics

As about 30% of the UK raspberry crop lies rotting in the fields, the need for automating the delicate harvesting operation becomes more acute.

From Fieldwork Robotics Ltd 16 Nov 2021

Novel Camera System with Active Machine Vision Module for Agricultural Purposes

Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University have developed a novel camera system with active lighting as an important stage in the development of machine vision systems that enable robotic devices to keenly “see” the agricultural targets to which they will react.

13 Oct 2021

New IDTechEx Report Outlines the Future of the Agricultural Robotics Industry

IDTechEx has recently released “Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032”, a market research report exploring the technical and market factors that are shaping the emerging industry around agricultural robotics

7 Sep 2021

Agri-Tech Hackathon Aims to Kick-Start Safety Innovations for Autonomous Agricultural Vehicles

This September, Agri-EPI Centre, in partnership with the world renowned Hands Free Farm, are running a virtual Hackathon event to address the safety and security challenges of autonomous vehicles and drones in agriculture.

20 Aug 2021

UK Agri-Tech Experts and Growers Join Forces on Salad-Saving Robot

A robotic solution to horticultural labour shortages is being developed to help secure the availability of the UK’s favourite salad veg – the lettuce.

23 Jul 2021

New Robotic Mechanism Developed for Picking and Trimming Button Mushrooms

A new robotic mechanism has been developed by scientists from Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences for picking and trimming mushrooms. The team showed its effectiveness in the automatic harvesting of button mushrooms.

2 Jun 2021

Artificial Intelligence and Drones will Help Pin Down Sosnovsky’s Hogweed

Skoltech scientists have created a new monitoring system for agricultural applications that performs real-time image segmentation on board the drone to identify hogweed. The research was published in a high-profile journal, IEEE Transactions on Computers.

11 May 2021

New Robotic Solution Wins Agribusiness Innovation Prize

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who recently won the Rabobank-MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize in 2021, got a good indication that their efforts were paying off when a judge offered to have his company associate join them for an early demonstration.

3 May 2021