CENTRAL ILLINOIS (WCIA) — Innovation is often expanding, especially in agriculture. Now, robots are starting to take care of crops in the field. Robots are not new, and many are running around on the ...

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Automation and robots are becoming mainstays in many industries, but researchers and farmers in China are taking innovation in smart farming to the next level.

FARMER CITY, Ill. — In a research field off Highway 54 last autumn, corn stalks shimmered in rows 40 feet deep. Girish Chowdhary, an agricultural engineer at the University of Illinois at ...

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Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Robots could grow your next salad inside an old steel mill on Pittsburgh's South Side. And the four co-founders of the robotic, indoor, vertical farming startup RoBotany could next ...

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In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

There is a hole in the argument that American workers will replace immigrants. For many jobs, the cheaper and more likely ...

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