Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
Robotics. Intelligence. Agriculture.
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The 2025 Vietnam edition of Agritechnica Asia was designed around machinery and digital solutions for rice, sugarcane, maize, coffee and fruit, alongside a co-located horticulture exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.
DLG’s 2025 innovation awards recognised two gold and 22 silver medal entries, spanning traction, baling, application technology and sensor-based machine adjustment rather than a single vision of farm automation.
GreenTech’s 2026 Robot Challenge recognised the 4X Delta Cobot for plant transplanting, highlighting how industrial robotic handling is being adapted to repetitive work in commercial horticulture.
A joint team from Osnabrück’s two universities retained the Field Robot Event title in 2026, combining autonomous maize-row navigation with plant-health recognition, biodiversity tasks and targeted soil treatment.
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.
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.
Penn describes inexpensive soil and leaf sensors, field communications and a startup working to reveal crop stress before visible damage becomes widespread.
Promodis support gives INRAE’s experimental facility additional autonomous tractors for evaluating robotics in vegetable production and vineyards.
