Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to ...

CHUALAR, Calif. – Looking like the ungainly combination of a Transformer and Edward Scissorhands, the robot slowly trundles across the field of tiny plants. It uses three high-resolution cameras to ...

Getting your greens off Amazon is weird enough, but to think that they were grown and harvested by gentle-moving robot farmers is downright bonkers. Yes, there are quite a few robots and drones giving ...

TOKYO - Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. Prof.

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

In a special test vineyard in New York State, you may spot an unusual sight: tall, boxy robots with rugged tires patrolling the cultivated rows, moving autonomously thanks to onboard GPS. As they ...

Women in the Field: Here is Marlane Williams’ journey to getting back to what she cares about most, owning a dairy farm. Marlane Willams grew up on a family farm near Renick, Mo., just north of ...

The future holds a wealth of opportunities for rural communities like Cumbria, from high-tech harvests to advancements in the ...

If you crossed WALL-E with a floor lamp, it might look a little like the PhytoPatholoBot. These robots aren't roving through space or decorating a... These robots could fix grape farmers' labor woes ...

The US is facing an agricultural worker shortage, along with aging farm owners, at the same time it juggles demand in food from a global population boom. If we're being blunt, those elements added ...

SAN CARLOS, Calif. -- Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He's heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he's strong ...