winemakers can better plan for treatments and cultivate their land accordingly. “ For more information on how to monitor crops for pests using the Arduino Pro platform and hardware jump over to ...

Not that farming isn’t cool, but it’s hard to imagine how one of these robots, suspended over a field by a cable, would be any more effective than a Skycam-style system to watch crops.

The InvestGeek team used a special Arduino board just right for the project, called . The board monitors the environment around your plants, and it can notify you if something is wrong. It can also ...

“A few years back, some colleagues and I were exploring ways for small, persistent monitoring robots to traverse crop ... can swing along a wire, or between wires, allowing it to monitor an ...

The spherical robot can propel itself over uneven ground and may one day be rolling up for work in fields to monitor and tend crops. Spherical robots aren't new. There have been a number built ...

It added a scouting robot that helps with close-up views from the ground as well as small planes that can gather intel on larger crops. To build the new robotic scouting vehicle, called Pollen 5 ...

But for Katie Gold and Yu Jiang of Cornell University, a smart robot that can monitor crop health better and more safely than any human is only a stepping stone to something cosmically larger.

Hernandez said the robot, which runs on solar power, can monitor all types of crops, including soy, corn, sugarcane, onions, potatoes and tomatoes.

Robots are important tools for precision agriculture because they can quickly collect valuable data to help farmers fine-tune their methods of planting, irrigation, pest control, harvesting and more.

A Scots firm has built a robot that can “swim” through and monitor stored crops amid hopes it could save a third of the world’s grain. The unique “grain-surfing” device dreamt up by ...

Hernandez said the robot, which runs on solar power, can monitor all types of crops, including soy, corn, sugarcane, onions, potatoes and tomatoes. Solinftec, backed by Brazil's Trajano family ...