You can’t halt progress, and when an eight-year old recently set up a robot to plough a field without any human intervention, apart from a refill of fuel, eyebrows were raised at how far agriculture ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Farmers in Brisbane for the Ekka are being encouraged to come to QUT's Gardens Point campus on Sunday August 18 to check out AgBot, a robot that is destined revolutionise farming in the future. AgBot ...

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 ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s College of Agriculture is partnering with Gerrish Farms to host the agBOT Challenge 2019, a three-day event May 16-18. The event includes the NextGen Expo, ...

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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 ...