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    Rising need for nursery, indoor and vertical farming
    To meet rising food demands from a growing global population, over 250 million acres of arable land will be needed – about 20% more land than all of Brazil. Alternatively, agricultural production wi...
    28 November 2016, by

    Keeping a robotic eye on pollution
    [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENcwT8mgDvg[/embed] By Ethan Bilby. Field robots and plane-based remote sensors can patrol the earth and the sky to monitor the gases that cause climate ch...
    19 November 2016, by

    Digital farms are already a reality
    Farmers, ranchers and growers the world over are transitioning to precision agricultural methods, i.e., subdividing their acreage into many unique sub-plots -- in some cases right down to the indivi...
    10 November 2016, by

    Swarms of precision agriculture robots could help put food on the table
    Swarms of drones will help farmers map weeds in their fields and improve crop yields. This is the promise of an ECHORD++ funded research project called ‘SAGA: Swarm Robotics for Agricultural Appli...
    21 October 2016, by , and

    Top 10 technologies in precision agriculture
    PrecisionAg's editor Eric Sfiligoj has prepared a list of the top 10 technologies that are shaping precision ag today. Most involve some level of robotics, navigation, sensors and variable rate dispe...
    14 September 2016, by

    Case IH displays new cab-less concept tractor
    Case IH (Case New Holland International Harvester) displayed their new cab-less tractor at a farming show in Iowa. The presentation was to show off what they hope will be the future: an autonomous...
    06 September 2016, by



    Could RoboBees help save food supplies? (video)
    Originally pioneered at the Harvard Microrobotics Lab, in collaboration with Northeastern University, RoboBees are inspired by nature and designed for an important reason: wild pollinators -- such as...
    08 August 2016, by

    Robots for a sustainable future
    Climate change is one of the greatest issues facing the world today. With temperatures rising to their highest point in 4,000 years due to human activity and monthly average carbon dioxide levels exce...
    15 July 2016, by
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    Ladybird, with James Underwood

    Transcript below. In this episode, Ron Vanderkley interviews James Underwood from the Australian Centre for Field Robotics. Underwood discusses his work on an autonomous vegetable harvesting ...
    21 May 2016, by

    Protecting European wine: Vinbot rover optimises harvest and quality
    by Fintan Burke With warmer winters and drier summers, climate change might even be having an effect on your favourite bottle of wine. Winemakers are already witnessing changes. In...
    13 May 2016, by

    Farming with robots
    Farmers are increasingly under pressure to feed more people. The UN predicts that the world population will rise from 7.3 billion today to 9.7 billion in 2050. This growing population has become picki...
    04 May 2016, by

    Where’s Susi? Airborne orangutan tracking with python and react.js
    You are faced with a few thousand hectares of rainforest that you know harbours one or more orangutans that you need to track down. Where, how, and why do you start looking?...
    27 April 2016, by

    Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm
    New Zealand’s government innovation agency Callaghan Innovations and Silicon Valley’s innovation non-profit SVForum organized Transforming AgTech, an event bringing together New Zealand and US a...
    27 April 2016, by and

    10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups
    No agricultural robotics startup will be successful without a strong connection to the farm. And here are 10 strategies for creating that connection I’ve seen succeed. Thanks to the great panel a...
    26 April 2016, by and

    Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot
    By: Chris Bogdon Amir Degani is an assistant professor at Technion Institute of Technology and Avi Kahnani is the CEO and Co-Founder of Israeli robotics start-up Fresh Fruits Robotics. Together, they...
    08 March 2016, by

    Using drones in wine making
    In 2014, viticulturist William Metz was granted a fellowship by the Villa d’Este Wine Symposium to spend a full year evaluating the potential applications of drones in wine making — a project t...
    28 December 2015, by

    Yamaha RMAX crop sprayer gets full FAA approval
    The FAA granted Yamaha Motor Corporation an Agricultural Aircraft Operations certificate for their RMAX crop spraying remotely piloted helicopters....
    21 December 2015, by

    Blue River Technology, Jibo and others get holiday funding
    Jibo got $16 million from Asian VCs to enable Jibo to speak and sell in Japan and China, while Blue River Technology got $17 million from a group of agricultural VCs to expand product development to n...
    18 December 2015, by

    Blueberry picking robot could win $250,000 prize
    Here’s an interesting robotics challenge – a coalition of blueberry farmers are offering a $250,000 prize for automation solutions that improve blueberry picking. The deadline for entries in the c...
    29 October 2015, by

    Autonomous underwater system for monitoring health of Venice Lagoon demos at #EXPO2015
    Monitoring the ocean for pollution, ecology and climate change effects is a costly and elaborate task, especially in a complex area like Venice, with its lagoon, its many channels, cable and pipe...
    15 October 2015, by
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    Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus

    Transcript included. In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....
    10 July 2015, by

    As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its thousands of self-driving tractors
    Google is putting 25 new self-driving cars onto the streets of Mountain View, California, but agricultural equipment manufacturer John Deere reminds us that it already has tens of thousands of self-dr...
    28 June 2015, by

    Field and service robotics: Live tweets and pics from #FSRToronto
    FSR, the biannual single track meeting on field and service robotics, is on now in Toronto. With 42 papers on a range of applications and keynotes by Chris Urmson (Google[x]), Paul Newman (Oxford...
    24 June 2015, by

    AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
    By Rachel Gould The 2016 agBOT Robotic Seeding Challenge challenges participants to build unmanned robotic equipment to plant, measure and track multiple crop seeds to improve farming efficiency...
    14 May 2015, by

    Drought and desertification: How robots might help
    Groundwater levels in California's Central Valley are down to historic lows and reservoirs have been depleted following four consecutive years of severe drought in the state. California is set to i...
    17 April 2015, by

    Media is more excited about farm robots than exhibitors at World Ag Expo
    The 48th annual World Ag Expo, with over 1,400 exhibitors, finished up in Tulare, California last week with little exposure to robotic game changers. Their Top 10 New Products included just one robot...
    17 February 2015, by

    2 agricultural robotics projects funded under latest Horizon 2020
    On January 13 the EU announced its list of robotics projects funded under Horizon 2020, the EU funding program for research and innovation. Agriculture is one of four “priority domains” for robot...
    27 January 2015, by

    Agricultural technology making news
    My article Are agricultural robots ready? was widely read last month. Now there are two new in-depth articles on the subject by the NY Times and San Jose Mercury News. All are informative and worth y...
    02 December 2014, by

    Are agricultural robots ready? 27 companies profiled
    Agriculture is one of our most important industries. It provides food, feed and fuel necessary for our survival. With the global population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, agricultural production...
    12 November 2014, by

    PrecisionHawk raises $10M
    According to a press release from today: PrecisionHawk, an information delivery company that uses a small, lightweight UAV and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today...
    18 September 2014, by

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