TOKYO - Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. Prof.
The days of identifying weeds based on looks alone are behind both us and farmers. How does this AI model manage to identify ...
Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...
CORALVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) - Jack Kilian founded Poultry Patrol when he was living in Minnesota. The corporation, now based out of Coralville, makes small, camera-equipped robots on wheels that navigate ...
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 ...
While robotic weed-cutting machines are nothing new to agriculture, they have become more common in vegetable fields in the ...
It's fair to say there are easier ways to make a living than dairy farming, so the appeal of using robots is understandable. Interestingly, the benefits of automating routine tasks don't just benefit ...
The world population is still growing every year. The amount of farmland is not. That means farmers will need to find ways to use their limited land more efficiently. AI could help, according to ...
If you crossed WALL-E with a floor lamp, it might look a little like the PhytoPatholoBot. These robots aren't roving through space or decorating a... These robots could fix grape farmers' labor woes ...