Kenneth Kioria Gicira and Michael Mwaisakenyi, Mechatronic Engineering students at JKUAT who invented the weed robot. Two Mechatronic Engineering students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture ...

Swiss company Caterra AG has recently launched the Honeybee, a fully autonomous electric weeding robot designed to replace ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — The University of Idaho recently showcased an advanced robotic device that eradicates weeds within the Coeur d'Alene Nursery. According to a press release, the robot is a 3-foot-wide ...

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 ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- Researchers with the University of Idaho (U of I) Coeur d'Alene are getting a $139,000 grant from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to develop a robotic weeding system. In theory, ...

Robotics startup Aigen is raising a new round of funding to tackle an increasingly serious problem for farmers: herbicide-resistant weeds. Aigen builds lightweight, solar-powered autonomous robots ...

Next time you buy organic fruits, veggies, or nuts, it might be thanks to a giant weed-whacking robot. Semi-autonomous farming machines are navigating agricultural fields across California and Arizona ...

Anybody who has pulled weeds in a garden knows that it’s a tedious task. Scale it up to farm-sized jobs, and it becomes a nightmare. The most efficient industrial alternative, herbicides, have ...

Common crops, like wheat or maize, could be genetically altered to be brightly coloured to make it easier for weeding robots to do their job, suggest researchers. Weeding reduces the need for ...

Most corn and soybean fields in the U.S. are planted with herbicide-resistant crop varieties. However, the evolution of superweeds that have developed resistance to common herbicides is jeopardizing ...

German company E-TERRY has designed its autonomous field robot E-TERRY specifically for mechanical in-row weed control in vegetable and specialty crops. The lightweight robot is currently available in ...