CASSELTON, N.D. — There were sugarbeets planted near Casselton, North Dakota, in July, weeks after normal planting would be complete. The reason? The developers of an autonomous weeding robot need to ...

Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to rethink their approach to effective weed management, and weeding robots have ...

Robots have been slowly creeping on to vegetable farms, but as yet most have been small machines not capable of coping with the rigours of working on bigger operations. French-based firm Naïo ...

CHUALAR, Calif. – Looking like the ungainly combination of a Transformer and Edward Scissorhands, the robot slowly trundles across the field of tiny plants. It uses three high-resolution cameras to ...

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We all know that gardening can be back-breaking work. While it's great to reap what we sow, especially fresh veggies, the dreaded weeding is what deters many of us from confronting the tangled chaos ...