A new open-source field robot offers strawberry and cereal crop growers a cost-effective alternative for precision spraying.

Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to ...

The spraying of orchards and vineyards certainly isn't an eco-friendly process, with tractors spewing exhaust as they douse crops in herbicides and pesticides. That's one of the main reasons the ...

Battling weeds can be expensive, labor intensive and use large amounts of chemicals. To help make this easier [NathanBuilds] has developed V2 of his open-source drone weed spraying system, complete ...

In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...

UA is currently working to develop a camera-based spray system that will improve the accuracy of chemical applications to agricultural crops across the country. The goal of the project is to develop a ...

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 ...

FarmDroid’s new +Seed 14mm system boosts speed and handles larger seeds, opening doors for maize, beans, peas and organic crop growers.

Conventional crop–weed segmentation models classify every pixel in an image as crop, weed, or background, usually using deep learning. These systems support targeted herbicide application and ...

Robots are gonna rule the world one day. If they’re not cooking for us, then they’re out chopping weeds in a field somewhere. A group of engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...