Farmer-built, weed-specific sprayers are on the near-horizon for agriculture. The evidence? DIY, green-on-brown sprayers are already applying herbicide to fallow ground, built with open-source design, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- A Bay Area company recently launched a robot that will help build solar farms. San Francisco-based Built Robotics launched the "RPD 35," a robot based on an excavator. It can ...

A researcher has developed an autonomous driving algorithm for agricultural robots used for greenhouse cultivation and other farm work. Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, ...

WAUKON, Iowa — Once Mark and Sandra Ehrhardt decided to put in a robotic milker on their Waukon dairy farm, Sandra began compiling a business plan for lenders. They worked with Tom Anderson, a farm ...

Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...