Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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A European research project is developing open-source infrastructure to place agricultural applications across edge devices and cloud systems, responding to different connectivity, timing and energy requirements.
A four-year Horizon Europe project coordinated from Greece links agricultural robotics and extended-reality technologies with research on safer work, persistent labour constraints and sustainable production.
The European Commission’s 2025 launch programme described a €300 million partnership designed to improve access to agricultural, environmental and Earth-observation data for practical and policy applications.
Demonstrations in Spain and France brought researchers, engineers and livestock practitioners together to examine interoperability, digital readiness and the social and environmental effects of agricultural technologies.
The 2021 US AI institutes announcement included AgAID and AIIRA, with research spanning agricultural decision support, robotics, digital plant models and resilience to climate pressures.
Fondazione Bruno Kessler announced a five-year programme to test agricultural AI and robotic technologies in real-world conditions, linking complementary facilities across seven participating European countries.
European researchers used climbing plants to inspire growing robots, attachment mechanisms and energy-harvesting materials, opening new research directions relevant to environmental sensing and precision agriculture.
An EU-funded vineyard research project combined crop inspection, hyperspectral imaging and a two-arm harvesting mechanism, with prototype vineyard trials informing further technical and economic development.
The #DigitAg International Research Community launched during CORDiALL 2026, connecting French research institutions with international partners around inclusive digital tools and responsible agricultural artificial intelligence.
CGIAR’s 2022 Digital Innovation initiative linked research, policy and local capacity building across Africa, Asia and Latin America, with an emphasis on inclusive agricultural information services.
IRRI and IWMI brought digital agriculture stakeholders together in New Delhi to review an early Digital Inclusion Index and discuss how technology services reach underserved groups.
A 2023 certificate course combined human-centred design, data science and crop modelling, connecting students in India with expertise from CGIAR centres and agricultural research partners.
