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    agricultural robotics


    The agricultural labor conundrum
    Instead of worrying so much about robots taking away jobs, maybe we should worry more about wages being too low for robots to even get a chance. Seasonal labor for harvesting agricultural products, p...
    09 August 2017, by

    What’s slowing the use of robots in the ag industry?
    Why are so many farm equipment manufacturers so heavily involved in the ag industry yet things are going so slowly in relation to robotics? Perhaps farmers need to first incorporate the digital era ...
    11 May 2017, by

    Collaborating machines and avoiding soil compression
    Soil compression can be a serious problem, but it isn't always, or in all ways, a bad thing. For example, impressions made by hoofed animals, so long as they only cover a minor fraction of the soil s...
    17 March 2017, by

    Views and forecasts about robotics for the ag industry
    At RoboUniverse in San Diego, agricultural robots and the labor shortage were quickly identified as the biggest issues facing the industry today. Water scarcity and field health were other key issues ...
    31 January 2017, by

    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

    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



    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Harvesting Robots for High-value Crops | Journal of Field Robotics
    “This review article analyzes state-of-the-art and future perspectives for harvesting robots in high-value crops. The objectives were to characterize the crop environment relevant for robotic harves...
    14 July 2014, by

    University students developing robotic gardening technology | NASA
    As astronauts explore beyond Earth, they will need to make their habitat as self-sustaining as possible. This includes growing fruits and vegetables.Source: www.nasa.gov...
    12 July 2014, by

    Will agricultural robots arrive in time to keep fruit and vegetable costs down?
    Grape pickers migrate from field to field in northern Mexico and California. Photo credit: Tomas Castelazo (Own work) via Wikimedia Commons. 77% of all agricultural workers in the US are foreign bor...
    11 July 2014, by
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    Zero Tillage Robotics, with Peter Corke

    In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with Professor Peter Corke from Queensland University of Technology, about the fast-tracking research that will see robots planting, weeding, maintaining and har...
    02 May 2014, by

    Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting
    Keystone Technology's LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight. The most defining feature of the system on display at t...
    10 March 2014, by

    Harvest Automation rolls out bots for nurseries
    Harvest Automation, a Massachusetts-based start-up, has begun shipping their robots. After five years and an A, B and C round of equity funding, plus some debt, totalling almost $25 million, their HV-...
    17 January 2014, by

    From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout

    Link to audio file (27:16) In this episode, Ron Vanderkley speaks with David Dorhout from Iowa State University about his Agricultural Robots that include Prospero the robot farmer and Aquarius the g...
    15 November 2013, by

    Blue River Technology, with Jorge Heraud

    Link to audio file (31:48) In this episode Sabine Hauert speaks with Jorge Heraud, CEO of California-based startup Blue River Technology which brings together computer vision and robotics to auto...
    03 November 2013, by

    FutureDairy, with Kendra Kerrisk

    Link to audio file (38:51) FutureDairy is an R&D development program to help Australian dairy farmers manage the challenges they are likely to face during the next 20 years. In this episode, Ron ...
    18 October 2013, by

    Robotics and the disruptive transformation of agriculture
    Over the last few years, there has been increasing talk about the potential of agriculture as a market for robotics. Speaking about future markets for unmanned aerial systems in a recent presentation ...
    15 July 2013, by

    CMURobotics RI Seminar: Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions
    As guest speaker for a CMURobotics RI Seminar, titled Lessons Learned Bootstrapping a Robotic Vehicle Company, Mel Torrie of Autonomous Solutions (Petersboro, Utah), describes how he got into robotics...
    02 February 2013, by

    Farming Today 14/01/2013: interview with Simon Blackmore | BBC Radio 4
    “Farming Today takes a glimpse into a future which could have tractors driving themselves and robots pulling weeds. Anna Hill talks to a leading authority on precision farming, Professor Simon B...
    14 January 2013, by

    David Gardner, CEO of RASE, at Oxford Farming Conference
    Together with Professor Maurice Maloney, Director of Rothamsted Research, David Gardner, CEO of The Royal Agricultural Society of England, speaking with Charlotte Smith of the BBC R4's Farming Today, ...
    06 January 2013, by

    Exoskeleton designed to assist agricultural workers and gardeners
    “The Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology has developed an agriculture robot suit designed specifically to help out with tough agricultural work like pulling radishes because about 40 ...
    30 December 2012, by

    Technology for its own sake vs. benefits
    On using robots to make gardening scalable to millions of acres… You might wonder why I want to turn land management over to robots. Is it because I'm such a geek that I think everything goes bet...
    23 December 2012, by

    Future of farming geared for efficient robotic workers | Design News, by Cabe Atwell
    “One way to achieve increased efficiency is to employ robotic farmers and automated tools, which never get tired. Not to mention bots achieve a level of precision that can’t be matched by ...
    29 November 2012, by

    Reviewing “Farmerbots: a new industrial revolution” by James Mitchell Crow
    Writing in issue 2888 of New Scientist, James Mitchell Crow introduces us to the notion that robots will, sooner or later, be tending the crops we depend upon for food, and takes us on a whirlwind wor...
    11 November 2012, by

     
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