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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
Drones to help farmers with weed control
Horizon Magazine
01 Apr 2016
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...
Interview: The team behind the apple harvesting robot
Clearpath Robotics
08 Mar 2016
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...
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Towards Automating Fieldwork, with Hans-Peter Grothaus
Per Sjöborg
10 Jul 2015
Transcript included.
In this episode, Per Sjöborg talks to Hans-Peter Grothaus, from CLAAS, about automation in agriculture....
AgBot Robotic Seeding Challenge powered by $50K grant for Grizzly RUV
Clearpath Robotics
14 May 2015
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...
Drought and desertification: How robots might help
John Payne
17 Apr 2015
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...
Are agricultural robots ready? 27 companies profiled
Frank Tobe
12 Nov 2014
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...
From the Greenhouse to the Fields, with David Dorhout
Ron Vanderkley
15 Nov 2013
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...
UAV innovation is in the Cloud; 3 precision Ag innovations to watch for in 2014
Ernest Earon
12 Nov 2013
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...
From precision farming to autonomous farming: How commodity technologies enable revolutionary impact
Jeremy H. Brown
11 Nov 2013
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...
Air, water, energy and food in a nutshell: Space exploration as driver for sustainable robotic agriculture
Nikolaus Correll
04 Nov 2013
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, ...
Blue River Technology, with Jorge Heraud
Sabine Hauert
03 Nov 2013
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...
Down on the farm with drones
Patrick Egan
29 Oct 2013
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...
Lay of the land: Unmanned systems coming to commercial agriculture
Rich Tuttle
25 Oct 2013
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...
Transformational robotics and its application to agriculture
John Payne
25 Oct 2013
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...
Matching technology to value creation: Drones in agriculture
Robert Morris
24 Oct 2013
‘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...
Harvey: A working robot for container crops
Jospeh Jones
23 Oct 2013
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...
Ten lessons for farm drones
Chris Anderson
22 Oct 2013
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...
FutureDairy, with Kendra Kerrisk
Ron Vanderkley
18 Oct 2013
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 ...
Robotic cornucopia: Robohub focuses on the state-of-the-art and the future of agricultural robotics
Hallie Siegel
18 Oct 2013
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...
