Imagine a completely customizable robot with selectable software options. Buy one component, and it will take care of your lawn. Buy another one and it will clean your toilets. With a third one, it ...

Virginia Tech’s autonomous watermelon harvester won the 2018 national agBOT competition. The Virginia Tech agBOT team clinched first place in the third annual 2018 agBOT Challenge at Gerrish Farms in ...

The farming robots we’ll see in the not-too-distant future may look quite a bit like the equipment we already see in the fields – but tricked out with smart, Internet-connected augmentations that ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is partnering with Gerrish Farms to host the fourth annual agBOT Challenge, a three-day event May 16-18. The agBOT Challenge includes ...

Peter says that his son was wholly responsible for the new world record which he set at Birch Farm, Stonegrave when the AgXeed Agbot 5.115T2 autonomous tracked tractor paired with a Kverneland five ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – High-tech innovations that are shaping agriculture's future will be showcased during a three-day event at Purdue University alongside an international competition of autonomous ...

Dean Kertai is sitting behind the wheel of an ATV, but he’s not driving the vehicle. The engineer is focused on a computer screen as the Side By Side travels nine kilometres an hour, spraying a weedy ...

Britain's first AI tractor is being tested at an agricultural college to use tech to help young farmers prepare for the future. The AI robotic plough is designed to take to the countryside unmanned ...

A robot tractor that can farm unsupervised and be controlled by a phone app has been trialled by agricultural students. Young farmers at Coleg Glynllifon near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, are among the first ...

DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) - Farming is getting an upgrade. Researchers at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research presented a demonstration of their new agriculture robot, or "agbot" The automated ...

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