Tag: Agriculture

UK supermarket chain Waitrose is planning to deploy autonomous robots, from Shropshire-based robotics start-up Small Robot Company, to farm its Leckford Estate. The Telegraph reports...

The world's population is expected to increase by another two and a half billion to 10 billion by 2055. At the same time, the...

Californian robotics company Iron Ox claims to be ‘reinventing farming from the ground up’, as it unveils an autonomous indoor farm that leverages the...

UPDATED 5 OCTOBER World Space Week began on Thursday 4 October – a global series of events hosted by the United Nations. This year’s theme:...

Controlling and scaling massive Internet of Things (IoT) installations is difficult, especially in asset-rich organisations, such as industrial and manufacturing companies. More, with each connected...

Research from global satellite communications services provider Inmarsat reveals the rapid ascendency of the industrial IoT (IIoT), along with its capacity to boost revenues...

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has completed a blockchain pilot project in a slaughterhouse – the first time that blockchain has been used...

Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has officially launched an agricultural AI platform, ET Agricultural Brain, to allow farmers to better monitor, understand, and react to the...

Malek Murison looks at the challenges facing the UK's agriculture sector, post Brexit, and hears why two robotics and automation experts see the lie...

Farmers keen to adopt drone technology to improve crop health should be wary of 'off the shelf' aerial products, according to researchers at the University...

The Brazilian government plans to start implementing a national IoT plan, according to the country's Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Communications (MCTIC). The plan seeks...

US retailer Walmart has filed a raft of patents aimed at automating processes in the agriculture sector. Among them is a robotic solution to...