Agriculture has a reputation of being stuck in the past. In reality, for farmers, their workplaces are a fertile testbed for innovative technology – they were among the first to embrace ...

So an electrically driven, autonomous John Deere tractor could be coming in the future. For now, bow to your robot masters! Mark Vaughn grew up in a Ford family and spent many hours holding a ...

The researchers found their inspiration from both nature and art ... the robots themselves take about four minutes to assemble themselves into the shapes they need, and then walk away.

The machine, which begins as a flat sheet of material, exploits principles of origami to fold itself into a 3-D robot capable of walking without ... for making paper art," Lavine said, "it may ...

The robots are ... that looks like a tractor with an implement on the front, but it doesn’t include a driver’s seat. Instead, an operator directs it using an iPad while walking at the robot ...

Its robots can move packages and unload tractor trailers. They walk forward, backward, side-to-side, up and down inclines, across unstructured terrain, and can turn in place or crouch-walk.

A robot tractor that can farm unsupervised and be controlled by a phone app has been trialled by agricultural students. Young farmers at Coleg Glynllifon near Caernarfon, Gwynedd, are among the ...

It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots — or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. But Stefan ...