A slew of AI weed killers are on the horizon and have the potential to disrupt the multibillion dollar pesticides business. Among them is Swiss-company ecoRobotix and its weed-killing robot. It's ...

Weed control is essential in apple orchards because weeds compete with trees for nutrients, water and sunlight, which can ...

Robots are gonna rule the world one day. If they’re not cooking for us, then they’re out chopping weeds in a field somewhere. A group of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...

A new open-source field robot offers strawberry and cereal crop growers a cost-effective alternative for precision spraying.

The robotics start-up Aigen has declared war on weeds on agricultural land. The company uses a solar-powered robot that recognizes weeds with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and kills them ...

A giant robotic centipede could soon crawl out of the lab and into vineyards and blueberry farms in the United States. Inspired by nature’s long, slender, and wiggly movers, Ground Control Robotics ...

A wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotton field in California, plucking out weeds. Aigen's solar-powered ...

A new robot created in Nova Scotia may mean farmers could get some help tackling troublesome weeds in their fields. This month, Nexus Robotics, a technology startup based in Dartmouth, N.S., won the ...

If you've ever tried to grow your own garden, you know how impossible it is to keep up with the weeds. Keeping non-native vegetable plants alive while trying to keep native plants out is a losing ...

A team of North Dakota State University students designed an advanced robot to aid organic farming, using AI and cameras for weed control and security. NDSU Ag Engineering and Biosystems Engineering ...

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