CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Innovation is often expanding, especially in agriculture. Now, robots are starting to take care of crops in the field. Robots are not new, and many are running around on the ...

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 ...

A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

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 ...

Aigen's solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding Aigen CEO Kenny Lee and CTO of Aigen Richard Wurden hope to win over typically conservative farmers ...

Innovation is often expanding, especially in agriculture. Now, robots are starting to take care of crops in the field. The Brazilian Solix robot has advanced to the point that it can live in a field ...

After witnessing his grandmother’s hardships in the fields, Trivikram Kumar launched XMachines to build AI-powered farm ...

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 ...

Driverless forklifts, robotic arms and mechanical jaws help squeeze as many as 1.6 million pounds of lemons a day at a factory north of Los Angeles. The army of robots are now doing what was a tedious ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...