Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
Robotics. Intelligence. Agriculture.
At a 2016 field demonstration in Bundaberg, QUT presented AgBot II’s ability to navigate crops, classify weeds and select treatments, an early example of combining robotic perception with agronomic intervention.
Bosch and eight agricultural partners received a silver Agritechnica Innovation Award in 2019 for NEVONEX, a platform intended to run connected digital services directly on agricultural machinery.
The University of the Free State’s new greenhouse combines applied crop trials with training in data-led management under semi-arid conditions.
A newly published two-season experiment examines how thermostatically controlled root-zone temperatures affect cucumber growth and yield.
Measured plant models and synthetic vision data are helping researchers compare robot designs in a greenhouse environment that can be reset.
New Macdonald Campus infrastructure combines hands-on greenhouse teaching with a joint plant-phenotyping platform involving Université de Sherbrooke.
Tomato and cucumber greenhouses in Almería will test sensors, hyperspectral measurements and automated ventilation within the European AgriDataValue project.
A greenhouse sensor-network study maps uneven growing conditions and tests separate prediction models for different vertical layers.
A study of five organic vegetable crops reports water and yield benefits from an automated system tested with growers in Sa Kaeo.
AgriSMART Lestari combines remote monitoring and automated irrigation with a pilot using kenaf biomass as a mushroom-growing substrate.
Greenhouse in Transition brings universities and industry together to rethink growing systems and their connections with nearby farms, homes and industrial sites.
A Danish–German project aims to help growers retain irrigation water longer by measuring the nutrients that bulk salt readings cannot distinguish.
