TOKYO - Manual labor is becoming more and more difficult for Japan's aging farmers, prompting a Tokyo professor to devise a high-tech solution: mechanize the bodies of the farmers themselves. Prof.

CORALVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) - Jack Kilian founded Poultry Patrol when he was living in Minnesota. The corporation, now based out of Coralville, makes small, camera-equipped robots on wheels that navigate ...

Christian Luedtke, a researcher at Michigan State University, demonstrates a prototype of a tile robot. (Screen capture from Iowa Learning Farms via Iowa Capital Dispatch) Buy Photo The Gazette offers ...

The days of identifying weeds based on looks alone are behind both us and farmers. How does this AI model manage to identify ...

The former chief scientist at Chinese drone maker DJI explains why he is building robots for ‘forgotten’ sectors, such as agriculture ...

It's fair to say there are easier ways to make a living than dairy farming, so the appeal of using robots is understandable. Interestingly, the benefits of automating routine tasks don't just benefit ...

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 ...

A team of engineers and plant pathologists are developing a spider-shaped robot as the latest weapon in the war against a devastating crop disease. Curcurbits are a large family of plants that include ...

If you crossed WALL-E with a floor lamp, it might look a little like the PhytoPatholoBot. These robots aren't roving through space or decorating a... These robots could fix grape farmers' labor woes ...