Engineers from the University of Cambridge have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously identify and harvest iceberg lettuce, one of the more manually demanding crops for human ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iseki is a Japanese agricultural machinery manufacturing company that aims to modernize Japanese agriculture. Its rice harvesting ...

A research team led by Dr. David Helman from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a novel machine learning model employing hyperspectral ...

An innovative project to develop a networked system with sensors that would enable harvest machinery to automatically recognize its surroundings and react to changes was started in July 2014 and ran ...

When a field of soybeans is ready to harvest, speed is of the essence. But harvesting grinds to a halt every time the combine operator has to climb down out of the cab to manually check for ...

The future of farming marches to a beat dictated by technology and efficiency—dual lords of increased return. Coley Bailey, a third-generation Mississippi grower, has hitched his 6,000-acre operation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This massive piece of machine is part of the way Brussels sprouts end up on our plates from the grocery store or farmer’s market.

Harvesting delicate fruit and vegetables with robots is hard, and increasingly us humans no longer want to do these jobs. The pressure to find engineering solutions is intense and more and more ...