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    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

    How regenerative agriculture and robotics can benefit each other
    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...
    25 January 2017, by

    How AR technology can help farmers stay relevant
    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...
    19 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



    Drones to help farmers with weed control
    by Fintan Burke The last place you might expect to find drones and rovers is checking up on a corn field, but they could soon join tractors and ploughs on a farmer’s list of must-have agricultura...
    01 April 2016, by

    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
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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

    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

    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

    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

    UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
    Did you know that the world’s population is set to increase from seven billion people to more than nine billion in the next 40 years? In order to meet this growing demand, agricultural producers wil...
    12 November 2013, by

    From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact
    The popular conception of farming as low-tech is woefully out of date. Modern farmers are high-tech operators: They use GIS software to plan their fields, GPS to guide field operations, and auto-steer...
    11 November 2013, by

    Air, water, energy and food in a nutshell: Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture
    University of Colorado's robotic plant growth is demonstrated at the Kennedy Space Center. Source: NASA. Targeting a sustainable presence of humans in outer space will require solving air, water, ...
    04 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

    Down on the farm with drones
    Photo credit: Patrick Egan. There are bushels of folks out there now spending money and putting time in finding niches for unmanned systems that already exist. You may be saying, isn’t that what we...
    29 October 2013, by

    Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture
    Yamaha is testing spraying vineyards in Napa Valley through a COA with the FAA. Photo courtesy Yamaha Corp. With the global market for unmanned systems in agriculture on the rise, companies that ma...
    25 October 2013, by

    Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture
    No, this is not about shapeshifting robots, come to save or destroy Earth. It is about transforming the contexts within which robotic technologies are applied, and about practicing robotics with the i...
    25 October 2013, by

    Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture
    ‘Drones in agriculture’ has been a topic hot lately, but is it a real business? As a former Army UAV platoon leader and a current founder of an aerial data collection start-up, I believe so, bu...
    24 October 2013, by

    Harvey: A working robot for container crops
    Two robots follow boundary markers on either side of an irrigation pipe. Photo credit: Harvest Automation. In mid-2012, four HV-100 robots from Harvest Automation achieved an elusive milestone in rob...
    23 October 2013, by

    Ten lessons for farm drones
    3D Robotics's Vice President of Sales and Marketing John Cherbini prepares to launch a plane at Small Vines Wines in Sebastopol, Ca Sept. 13, 2013. The plane can help day-to-day operations on a farm...
    22 October 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

    Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
    With an ever-increasing need to feed the world's hungry, the agricultural sector has long been an important boon to the field of robotics: the sector's widespread acceptance and use of automation tec...
    18 October 2013, by




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