Automation and robots are becoming mainstays in many industries, but researchers and farmers in China are taking innovation ...

In the Marvel Comics universe, Thor is known for wielding a magical hammer with superhuman stamina. But at North Carolina ...

A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing interest in robotic systems that can automate harvesting. Yet some crops remain ...

Slideshow: Clint Brauer proves small autonomous robots and regenerative practices can boost profit per acre. South-central ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side. And the four co-founders of the robotic, indoor, vertical farming startup RoBotany could next ...

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FARMER CITY, Ill. — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40 feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...