Removing weeds is a chore few gardeners enjoy, as it typically involves long sessions of kneeling in the dirt and digging around for anything you don’t remember planting. Herbicides also work, but ...

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

A National Trust estate has brought in a robot to map the location of weeds in a bid to cut chemical use and improve environmental performance. It will allow farmers to apply herbicides solely to ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

This September marks the 15th anniversary of the first Roomba — but in spite of the device’s massive popularity, no companies have managed to successfully follow in its footsteps with another ...