HUMMING ALONG: All you can hear from the Greenfield Robotic autonomous weeders as they roll along through the field is the ...
Weeds are survivors, whether our tools of control are herbicides, tillage, flaming, crop rotations, hand rogueing or even robots.
Some call it a Roomba for weeds. Or a farmhand RoboCop. The students of Olin College of Engineering call their creation the PhoenixBot. Hoping to help small New England farms with the strenuous ...
In a sugar beet field a few miles east of Moorhead, small four-wheeled robots are rolling up and down the rows of beets. Powered by a solar panel, the robots use cameras to spot weeds and then guide ...