Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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The organisers of HAICTA 2026 report a hybrid conference in Kos that connected digital agriculture, resilient food systems and biodiversity research, with scientific contributions from across six continents.
Microsoft Research presented FarmVibes.AI in October 2022, providing models and workflows that combine field sensors, weather and aerial imagery to support agricultural analysis and new research applications.
Penn State and Chinese collaborators reported a multimodal soil-sensing approach in March 2023 that separates temperature and nitrogen-oxide signals, addressing interference that complicates agricultural measurements.
Wisconsin engineers reported protected electrochemical nitrate sensors in June 2024, with flexible sensing stickers and buried rods designed to follow nutrient and water movement through the soil profile.
A University of Glasgow-led study reported printed biodegradable sensing patches in April 2025, combining replaceable measurement elements with reusable electronics to reduce waste from agricultural monitoring.
The May 2024 EO for Agriculture Under Pressure workshop brought scientists, agencies and users together in Italy and online to discuss crop monitoring, operational services and integration with field data.
NASA, IBM and Forschungszentrum Jülich released an expanded open-source geospatial foundation model in December 2024, supporting applications such as crop classification, cloud-gap reconstruction and land monitoring.
A Northwestern-led team reported a microbial fuel-cell design in January 2024 that powered soil-moisture and touch sensors, exploring an alternative to replacing batteries in distributed monitoring systems.
Team AuTomatoes won the second Autonomous Greenhouse Challenge in 2020, with the competition assessing cultivation results, resource use and the robustness of AI strategies for remotely managed cherry tomatoes.
University of Almería researchers released GREENBOT data combining lidar, stereo imagery and inertial measurements from a tomato greenhouse, creating a research resource for localisation and mapping under changing crop conditions.
Team Bagua, supported by researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, won the 2020 Urban Greenhouse Challenge with a design combining urban food production, circular resource use and social functions in China.
Cleveland State University expanded its Connected Gardens work with indoor hydroponics, giving engineering and health students a year-round platform to compare growing systems and supply produce to a campus food pantry.
