Innovative developers are exploiting enormous opportunities in the sphere of agricultural automation and unmanned autonomy. In addition to robotic machines,…
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Drones on the Farm
UAS are being used in a variety of ways to help growers produce quality food, with applications like surveying, mapping and spraying taking off.
Adding Value from Field to Fork
From automation to autonomy to AI, advances in unmanned technologies are combining to feed the world.
Covid Stress Test
Ingenious autonomous and automated solutions will reinforce the food supply chain, today and beyond the crisis.
A Risk-Based Approach – The UAS BVLOS ARC Final Report
The long-awaited Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) final report dropped on…
Overcoming the Challenges of Bringing AI to the Edge
Deep learning has developed rapidly over the past ten years with the introduction of open-source neural networks and the availability…
Sea-Stainability: Oceans a Focus for Climate Concerns
Unmanned vehicles are a key component in the fight to protect oceans and lakes. To asrobiologists and astronomers, our earth is…
Powering Up
Advancements across batteries, solar and hydrogen fuel cells are leading to increased endurance and improved sustainability. While drones are…
Ada: A Self-driving Laboratory for Clean Energy Technologies
Flexible automation and artificial intelligence allow iterative planning, execution and learning from experiments in an autonomous loop. New materials are…
Evolving Tools Fight Natural Disasters
A roster of drones and sensors are being deployed against all phases of environmental threats. Jeff Strebler received the call…
Wind Inspection Evolves
As the U.S. and the world move toward sustainable power solutions, windfarms have become a familiar site across parts of…
MDGROUP ACQUIRES GEOCUE GROUP
mdGroup broadens its expertise in aerial LiDAR surveying technologies and consolidates its leadership in the U.S. in professional aerial surveying…
NOAA Rides UAS With the Wind
The federal agency is using new systems to learn more about storm forecasting, greenhouse gases and atmospheric shifts. You can…
Navigating the EU’s Green Deal
EUSPA, the European Agency for the Space Program, is using autonomous systems to support sustainability. The European Union “Green Deal”…
John Deere’s New Autonomous Tractor Offers Timeliness, Efficiency, Quality of Life
“The farm is a high-tech operation.” So said Jahmy Hindman, chief technology officer, Deere & Company, as executives of the…
Four Rotors and a Brain in Search of Eight Legs: A Tale from the Octopus’ Garden
Octopi are one of Korea’s most beloved delicacies. Korean people enjoy eating the eight-limbed mollusks in all forms — 36,899…
