Future Robotics Technologies Will Shape Production Process of Vegges

Says the folks responsible for that future: Manipulation is the key issue for robotics to apply to the agricultural industry,” said Jeff Legault, associate director of business development at the National Robotics Engineering Center, Carnegie Mellon University. Creating robots with the ability to harvest produce as quickly and gently has humans won’t be possible for [...]

Carnegie Mellon’s SnackBot

Although the focus of this site is exploring agricultural robots, we will definitely make room for some sweet, sweet robot butlers. <blockquote>CMU’s Snackbot is a roving wheeled ‘bot who’s primary purpose is to roam the halls of the University’s buildings, delivering tasty treast to students and faculty. Snackbot not only drives around bringing snacks, he [...]

World’s Fastest Picking Robot: Quattro

One of the many challenges in imagining how robotics can aid organic farming is the question of Why. Why should technologies intervene in age-old production techniques? Isn’t modern organic farming a direct response and alternative to industrial food production? These are great questions, and ones that I am sure this project will have to grapple [...]

Autonomous Agriculture Robots via Fuji

In the field of giant autonomous robotics designed for agriculture, we have Robots now enter the agriculture industry, too. First the award-winning rice-transplanting robot, now this: Major Japanese conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries has developed an agricultural robot that can tend fields autonomously. The company says the robot is the first of its kind. It runs [...]