Spanish ag-tech startup Voltrac has raised €7 million to ramp up production of Thor, a fully electric unmanned ground vehicle ...

Both John Deere and a company called Monarch showed off autonomous tractors at CES, with plans to put them on the market later this year. While the John Deere 8R features traditional diesel power, the ...

Ghost in the machine. A John Deere 7930 tractor rumbles across a canola field, buggy in tow, and eases alongside a rolling combine to collect grain. Speed, distance, and timing are synced in a farming ...

The agricultural machinery manufacturer Fendt is presenting the fully autonomous robot Xaver GT for mechanical weed control ...

The robot overlords have come to the farm. Earlier this month, Japanese tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer Kubota provided the world with a preview of what the future of farming might look like.

What happens when a tractor maker and a robot designer combine forces? Timing is everything on the farm. If you want to get your crops in at the peak of optimum weather in the spring then harvest them ...

Monarch Tractor this morning announced the delivery of its first MK-V unit. The “smart tractor” is electric and what the Bay Area-based company refers to as “driver optional” (terms like “autonomous” ...

More than a decade ago, Jon Kinzenbaw envisioned a day when drones would plant and harvest crops on Iowa farms. Today, that vision has become a reality with the development of a robotic planting and ...

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 ...

In our day to day lives, we don't really think much about the application of high tech to agriculture, but in reality, there is a ton of interesting technology there. I remember first thinking about ...

The control of tractor-trailer mobile robots poses a challenging yet critical problem in modern robotics, combining aspects of nonholonomic kinematics, underactuated dynamics, and sophisticated ...