farming

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...

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...

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...

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...