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North Scott FFA students innovate in agriculture

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Out in a field, tomato plants are pollinated either by wind shaking flowers or by bees, which fly into the flowers and vibrate, releasing the pollen into the air. But inside a greenhouse or indoor ...
Miami University College of Engineering and Computing’s Robotics and Automation Club received a grant of $12,000 from the Women’s Giving Circle to help fund their recent work applying robotics to ...
In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...
The best robots in agriculture are the ones growers stop talking about because they just work, said panelists at CES 2026.
In 2026, China’s robotics sector is no longer defined primarily by defense headlines or experimental military prototypes. Instead, the country’s ...
Technological advancements are constantly changing sectors of the economy, and agriculture is no different. While innovations like the Haber-Bosch process and the cotton gin forever changed the ...
It’s not yet life on the farm, but North Dakota State University researchers at the Big Iron farm show in West Fargo, North Dakota, Sept. 13-15, 2022, were demonstrating a research “weedbot,” or robot ...
Robots have the potential to change the way we grow food, making the process more efficient and environmentally friendly. Robots can be deployed to fight pests instead of using pesticides, can reduce ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii-born researcher Kyle Yoshida believes he can help reinvigorate his home state’s agriculture industry by putting robots to work on farms and having them pick fruits ...
With an ever-increasing global population, the agricultural community can no longer rely on human-only cultivation and harvesting for the current and future demand for food. Machine harvesting has ...
HONG KONG, Dec. 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On the evening of December 30th, Shenzhen Kingkey Smart Agriculture Times (stock code: a000048) announced the formal signing of an《Equity Investment Intention ...