In a world with too many humans and not enough pollinators, robots like the BrambleBee could help.
The VC firm 7percent Ventures is confirmed as lead investor, having plowed in £200,000. By the time of close, a total of 1,759 investors had backed the round.
Researchers in Singapore have created a robot that follows seniors around while they walk and can predict when they'll fall and stop it from happening.
Digitising agriculture with AI and robots could increase crop yields, help with labour shortages and be a more ecological option
John Seabrook writes that picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
Technology is driving change across the agriculture sector.
Are enough people taking the climate threat seriously that a startup focused on wildfire management could succeed? The answer appears to be yes.
Clint Brauer’s farm outside of Cheney, Kansas, could be described as Old MacDonald’s Farm plus robots. Along with 5,500 square feet of vegetable-growing greenhouses, classes teaching local families…
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Down on the farm with Tom, Dick and Harry
Robots are already doing the dirty work of getting the most from every seed.
Combining solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, hydrogen production, and fuel cells, these solar balloons are meant to be deployed above the clouds.
Global efforts to reduce emissions have failed to stop CO2 levels from rising. Now, a major new report looks at the ups and downs of taking that carbon out of the air.
As labor shortages make human pickers scarce and expensive, farms are turning to bots like this one to be the new generation of farm workers.
Founded by a team of students at MIT, the startup Ricult uses mobile technology to lift thousands of small-scale farmers and their families out of poverty.
Performing safety checks on bridges is slow and expensive work. A new autonomous robot can do the job quickly and cheaply
Hyundai’s latest campaign invites consumers to go online for a truly hypnotic experience with Australia’s foremost hypnotist.
Tthe miniaturization of farm machinery may be the agricultural-tech counter-trend that actually encourages smaller, more diverse farms.
Garbage-eating drone starts cleaning up the Port of Rotterdam - SiliconANGLE
Comme le révèle le média suisse Agefi, le constructeur Kubota a développé une blouse de 3,8 kilos visant à soulager dans leur travail les agriculteurs japonais qui connaissent un vieillissement prématuré, due notamment à la répétition de tâches souvent très physiques.
Seaweed could hold the key to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, one cow burp at a time.
The rings are made from wheat and barley left over from the brewing process.
A mix of cheap, abundant materials could hold electricity from wind or solar in foundations or roads.
As individuals, communities and societies we are faced with rapid and profound changes, the breakdown of old structures, institutions and ways of working. We are already in the middle of profound…
Energy storage is the big problem with renewable energy. Energy Vault wants to solve it by storing extra energy as potential energy in concrete blocks.
A small group of protesters held signs and handed out t-shirts to protest robots today at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. What did they have against
When companies prize investors above all, they’ll do anything to increase their stock price, and that’s not good for workers.
A product idea hatched at MIT evolves into biodegradable menstrual pads—and a win for gender equity.
In Rwanda, an early commercial test of unmanned aerial vehicles cuts a medical facility’s time to procure blood from four hours to 15 minutes.
Cody Friesen, PhD ’04, invented panels that harvest water from the air—even in arid Arizona. And that’s after he’d figured out how to make rechargeable high-energy batteries that are cheap and eco-friendly.
/PRNewswire/ -- Applied Carbon, a technology company designing automated biochar production machines that convert in-field agricultural crop waste into...
The Maritime province's two-megawatt turbine is now connected to the power grid
A shortage of farm labor has exposed a tech gap, leaving California to wonder if machines can pick strawberries, lettuce, and other crops
Have we found some of the technologies that can finally help us survey Earth's unknown depths?
These plastics can easily be disassembled to chemical building blocks.
Team of California scientists hopes a CO2-storing crop will help save the planet
