Tag: Farming
Agtech: Waitrose to trial autonomous farming robots
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...
Q&A | AT&T’s Chris Penrose on IoT, asset tracking, smart farming
AT&T is a serious player in the world of IoT, and its work is regularly in the news across the spectrum, from healthcare to...
Iron Ox launches world’s first fully-autonomous farm
Californian robotics company Iron Ox claims to be ‘reinventing farming from the ground up’, as it unveils an autonomous indoor farm that leverages the...
World Space Week: How satellites, data analytics are saving the planet
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:...
Bringing home the bacon: Alibaba brings AI platform to pig farming
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...
Bee robotic: Walmart files patents on automating agriculture
US retailer Walmart has filed a raft of patents aimed at automating processes in the agriculture sector. Among them is a robotic solution to...
Will robots fill gaps in UK farm labour market?
With Brexit on the horizon and the continued freedom of movement for migrant workers uncertain, the UK's agriculture industry is facing uncertain times. Researchers...
How IoT, smart supply chains can avert global food crisis
Jason Kay, CCO of IMS Evolve, explains the role that digitisation and smart supply chains are playing in transforming the cold food chain to help...
Harvesting robot to save big slice of farming market
With inflation rising, German farming is in crisis. With the help of partners across Europe, researchers at Berlin's Fraunhofer Institute are developing a robot capable...
Exclusive Q&A: Dell sets out new IoT strategy
In an exclusive interview, Internet of Business talks to Dell EMC's Dermot O'Connell about the vendor's new vision for the IoT, and how companies...
Researchers use wearables to keep sheep farmers one step ahead
Researchers at the University of Nottingham are working with agriculture industry leaders to address the challenge of lameness in sheep – and an IoT...
Farming IoT connections to hit 27m by 2021
Whether it's cattle, crops or agricultural machinery that need to be monitored, farming is proving fertile ground for IoT technologies.
The number of wireless connections used...