His research group in the College of Agricultural Sciences has been studying and developing robotic precision agricultural systems over the last decade. "A side-view camera can help, but weeds might ...

At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, the world’s foremost tech conference, farming machinery giant Kubota introduced Flash, a vehicle-mounted camera that creates ultra-detailed images to help ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii-born researcher Kyle Yoshida believes he can help reinvigorate his home state’s agriculture industry by putting robots to work on farms and having them pick fruits ...

Amid a growing agricultural labor crisis, a cadre of computer scientists, farmers and venture capitalists are pitching tech-based solutions that bring to mind a joke from a late `90s comedy classic.

Santosh Pitla, associate professor of biological systems engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, can picture a future in which swarms of small autonomous robots roll through a corn or ...

Texas A&M University System researchers are working to establish a configurable, adaptive and scalable swarm system consisting of unmanned ground and aerial robots designed to assist in collaborative ...

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Most corn and soybean fields in the U.S. are planted with herbicide-resistant crop varieties. However, the evolution of superweeds that have developed resistance to common herbicides is jeopardizing ...

Robotics and deep learning are progressively reshaping agricultural automation by introducing precision, efficiency and adaptability to traditional farming practices. Advanced robotic systems, ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A semiautonomous robot may soon be roaming agricultural fields gathering and transmitting real-time data about the growth and development of crops, information that crop breeders -- ...