A robot the size and shape of a square kitchen table wheels over a row of seedlings. It scans the ground with camera "eyes," then stops. A small probe lowers from the middle of the robot, homes in on ...

Researchers have been hard at work lately trying to better understand plants and the intricacies involved in growing them. Researchers at Penn State University’s Fruit Research and Extension Center in ...

University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene researchers have been granted a $139,000 award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop a robotic weeding system at the U.S. Forest Service’s tree seedling ...

According to Germany's University of Hohenheim, about 80 percent of the fruit trees in that country aren't regularly pruned – despite the fact that doing so makes them structurally stronger and more ...

At long last, the robotic revolution is upon us. Any day now we’ll have robot cars driving our roads, robot bees pollinating our flowers, robot plants exploring our soil—wait, what? The lonely teenage ...

As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there's now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India. That's why scientists there have built a tree-climbing coconut-harvesting robot, that ...

WILLARD, NC (WECT) - Johnson Nursery in Willard now has the help of not only human workers, but robots as well. After seeing working robots at a trade show in Maryland, a farmer and his son thought ...

Artificial Christmas trees are getting a high-tech upgrade this season … and a lot of social media attention. You may have seen the “robot Christmas tree,” an artificial tree that embraces its ...

After hearing a radio program describe the labor-intensive work of forest pathologists — basically, tree doctors — Maksim Mikhailov had an idea: what if a robot helped collect their data? Mikhailov is ...

Researchers have built a robot that uses a single camera and an algorithm to gain bird-like obstacle-avoidance smarts as it flies around the great outdoors. That is, the robot is smart enough to avoid ...