SAN CARLOS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Iron Ox, a farming innovation company with deep expertise in plant science, robotics and artificial intelligence, has officially announced its second ...

The company was able to buy existing robots designed for the warehouse and logistics sector and fit them with custom-built attachments and machine learning software coded in house. The foggy west ...

HUBBARD, Ore. — About a decade ago, David Ashton and Justin Gravett were college roommates studying engineering at California Polytechnic State University. Now the friends are trying to change the ...

Ag robotic offerings are evolving from single-task machines to full platforms that can tackle a number of jobs.

When Brandon Contino and co-founder Dan Chi were developing Four Growers’ produce-harvesting robots, they practically lived in a greenhouse for an entire year. They coded at a small desk tucked in the ...

If you think growing leaves is easy, think again. Lettuce isn’t the world’s most challenging crop, but as any farmer knows, there are plenty of problems that pop up between planting and harvest. The ...

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Robots love big farms. But most farms aren’t big. According to one estimate, 72% of the world’s farms are smaller than one hectare, and that poses big problems for automation. These smaller farms ...

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