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When a professor meets a farmer
Joost van de Loo
19 Jan 2023
There's a clear need for technology in farming but its problems are systemic, finds a critical design professor when she visits a flower bulb farmer. Watch this new episode of FRAIM in the Field.
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Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik
Abate De Mey
10 Oct 2022
Areeb, the co-founder of Glacier, gives some insight into the opaque recycling industry, and why it is unable to handle the volume of recyclable good Americans through out each year.
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Autonomously Transporting Crops, with Suma Reddy
Kate Zhou
21 Feb 2022
Suma Reddy discusses crop transportation with autonomous mobile robots made by Future Acres.
How robots and bubbles could soon help clean up underwater litter
Horizon Magazine
19 Jan 2022
Everyone loves to visit the seaside, whether to enjoy the physical benefits of an exhilarating swim or simply to relax on the beach and catch some sun. But these simple life affirming pleasures are easily ruined by the presence of litter, which if persistent can have a serious negative impact on both the local environment and economy. However, help is at hand to ensure the pristine nature of our coastlines.
Meet the Oystamaran
MIT News
08 Dec 2021
Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, helping the shellfish to grow and stay healthy.
Robot farmers could improve jobs and help fight climate change – if they’re developed responsibly
Thorvald: an autonomous robot from Saga Robotics Matt Munro, Saga Robotics, Author providedFarming robots that can move autonomously in an open field or greenhouse promise a cleaner, safer agricultura...
What Holland can teach Silicon Valley: a joint response to unpredictability
Joost van de Loo
12 Feb 2021
Combining drone imagery with weather data and planting schemes to forecast how much fresh vegetables a harvest is going to yield; that’s what predictive modelling intern Berend Klaver from TU De...
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Empowering Farmers Through Root AI, with Josh Lessing
Abate De Mey
19 Oct 2020
Robohub Podcast · Empowering Farmers Through Root AI
In this episode, Abate interviews Josh Lessing, co-founder and CEO of Root AI. At Root AI they are developing a system that tracks data on the ...
EU’s future cyber-farms to utilise drones, robots and sensors
Horizon Magazine
25 Aug 2017
by Anthony King
Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape....
Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Lewis Anderson from Traptic
Robohub Editors
11 Aug 2017
Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
The agricultural labor conundrum
Frank Tobe
09 Aug 2017
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...
Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
Joe Jones
06 Jul 2017
Update: The response to Tertill’s crowdfunding campaign has amazed and delighted us! Pledges totalling over $250,000 have come from 1000+ backers. We're shipping to all countries, with over a fifth...
UAV-based crop and weed classification for future farming
Crops are key for a sustainable food production and we face several challenges in crop production. First, we need to feed a growing world population. Second, our society demands high-quality foods. Th...
Farming (r)evolution
Peter Feuilherade
12 May 2017
This article was originally published on IEC e-Tech. Click here to view the original post.
Many advances in electric self‑driving car technology and robotics are transferring across to industrial...
What’s slowing the use of robots in the ag industry?
Frank Tobe
11 May 2017
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 ...
Vertical farms profiled on CBS Morning News
Frank Tobe
05 Apr 2017
CBS News profiled a New Jersey vertical farm providing baby kale, arugula, spinach and romaine to nearby Newark and NYC groceries. They boast 130 times more productivity, 95% less water and no pest...
Collaborating machines and avoiding soil compression
John Payne
17 Mar 2017
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...
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RoboUniverse 2016: Agricultural Robotics, with Dan Harburg and Matthew Borzage
Abate De Mey
04 Feb 2017
In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews two speakers from the Agricultural track of the RoboUniverse 2016 conference in San Diego: Dan Harburg of Soft Robotics Inc. and Matthew Borzage of BioTac. Bo...
How will farmers and robots work together?
John Payne
03 Feb 2017
Let's assume, for a moment, that the vision I've laid out in this blog is ridiculously successful, and, over the next few decades, robotic devices take over all aspects of tending land and crops and h...
Views and forecasts about robotics for the ag industry
Frank Tobe
31 Jan 2017
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 ...
Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
Horizon Magazine
26 Jan 2017
The shells on crustaceans and molluscs off the Norwegian Atlantic coast are not as thick as they once were. This is because of ocean acidification, where increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphe...
How regenerative agriculture and robotics can benefit each other
John Payne
25 Jan 2017
I've come around to the view that the best and most inclusive term for high-concept farming which is both sustainably productive and ecologically responsible is Regenerative Agriculture. It implies al...
How AR technology can help farmers stay relevant
John Payne
19 Jan 2017
I've long believed that Augmented Reality (AR) and robotics are closely related. Both model their environments to some degree. Robotics uses that model to guide the behavior of a machine, whereas AR u...
Rising need for nursery, indoor and vertical farming
Frank Tobe
28 Nov 2016
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...
Keeping a robotic eye on pollution
Horizon Magazine
19 Nov 2016
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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...
Digital farms are already a reality
Frank Tobe
10 Nov 2016
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...
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...
Top 10 technologies in precision agriculture
Frank Tobe
14 Sep 2016
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...
Case IH displays new cab-less concept tractor
Frank Tobe
06 Sep 2016
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...
Could RoboBees help save food supplies? (video)
Robohub Editors
08 Aug 2016
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...
Robots for a sustainable future
Jibo
15 Jul 2016
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...
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Ladybird, with James Underwood
Podcast team
21 May 2016
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 ...
Protecting European wine: Vinbot rover optimises harvest and quality
Horizon Magazine
13 May 2016
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...
Farming with robots
SPARC
04 May 2016
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...
Showcasing New Zealand AgTech: Bringing automation and robotics to the farm
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
27 Apr 2016
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...
10 strategies for bringing agricultural expertise to robotics startups
Andra Keay and Silicon Valley Robotics
26 Apr 2016
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...
