Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A field study compares three soft grippers and reports both reachable-fruit success and the lower success rate across the complete harvesting process.
