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    When a professor meets a farmer
    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.
    19 January 2023, by
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    Recycling: An Opaque Industry, with Areeb Malik

    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.
    10 October 2022, by
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    Autonomously Transporting Crops, with Suma Reddy

    Suma Reddy discusses crop transportation with autonomous mobile robots made by Future Acres.
    21 February 2022, by

    How robots and bubbles could soon help clean up underwater litter
    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.
    19 January 2022, by

    Meet the Oystamaran
    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.
    08 December 2021, by

    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...
    23 June 2021, by , and

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    What Holland can teach Silicon Valley: a joint response to unpredictability
    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...
    12 February 2021, by

    Drones that patrol forests could monitor environmental and ecological changes
    By Caroline Brogan Imperial researchers have created drones that can attach sensors to trees to monitor environmental and ecological changes in forests....
    06 November 2020, by
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    Empowering Farmers Through Root AI, with Josh Lessing

    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 ...
    19 October 2020, by
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    Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot, with Gennaro Notomista

    Robohub Podcast · Environmental Monitoring with the SlothBot In this episode, Lauren Klein interviews Gennaro Notimista, a robotics PhD student in the Georgia Robotics and InTelligent Systems Labo...
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    ICRA 2017 Company Showcase, with Howard Michel, Li Bingbing, Xianbao Chen and Lester Teh Chee Onn

    In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and Automation (ICRA). ICRA is the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society’s biggest conference an...
    10 December 2017, by

    EU’s future cyber-farms to utilise drones, robots and sensors
    by Anthony King Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape....
    25 August 2017, by

    Udacity Robotics video series: Interview with Lewis Anderson from Traptic
    Mike Salem from Udacity's Robotics Nanodegree is hosting a series of interviews with professional roboticists as part of their free online material....
    11 August 2017, by

    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

    Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
    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...
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    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...
    28 June 2017, by , , , and

    Thought leadership in social sector robotics
    WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
    20 June 2017, by

    Farming (r)evolution
    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...
    12 May 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

    Vertical farms profiled on CBS Morning News
    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...
    05 April 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

    UgCS photogrammetry technique for UAV land surveying missions
     UgCS is easy-to-use software for planning and flying UAV drone-survey missions. It supports almost any UAV platform, providing convenient tools for areal and linear surveys and enabling direct ...
    09 March 2017, by

    5 global problems that AI could help us solve
    There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
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    RoboUniverse 2016: Agricultural Robotics, with Dan Harburg and Matthew Borzage

    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...
    04 February 2017, by

    How will farmers and robots work together?
    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...
    03 February 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

    Into the deep: Underwater machines keep an eye on climate change
    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...
    26 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

    Robohub roundtable: Robotic bee swarms from Black Mirror – what’s hype, what’s real?
    In this roundtable edition, we watched the Black Mirror episode “Hated in the Nation” and asked our Robohub team members: with many institutions focused on developing aerial drone technology, and ...
    06 December 2016, by

     
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