The robot overlords have come to the farm. Earlier this month, Japanese tractor and heavy equipment manufacturer Kubota provided the world with a preview of what the future of farming might look like.

Ghost in the machine. A John Deere 7930 tractor rumbles across a canola field, buggy in tow, and eases alongside a rolling combine to collect grain. Speed, distance, and timing are synced in a farming ...

Both John Deere and a company called Monarch showed off autonomous tractors at CES, with plans to put them on the market later this year. While the John Deere 8R features traditional diesel power, the ...

Agricultural robots at German event emphasize continuous autonomous operation, potentially revolutionizing farming through ...

A Japanese tractor company is revolutionizing the farming industry with its latest zero-exhaust tractor. According to an article in Electrek, Kubota just won "Best of Innovation" at the CES Innovation ...

More than a decade ago, Jon Kinzenbaw envisioned a day when drones would plant and harvest crops on Iowa farms. Today, that vision has become a reality with the development of a robotic planting and ...

A crowd waits to enter the main show floor at the CES tech show Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Joe Buglewicz) LAS VEGAS (AFP) — Driverless plows and autonomous tools to weed ...

In our day to day lives, we don't really think much about the application of high tech to agriculture, but in reality, there is a ton of interesting technology there. I remember first thinking about ...

Efficiency is the name of the game these days in agriculture: conserving money, time and manpower. But taking the farmer out of the tractor? Though it sounds like something out of a science fiction ...

Monarch Tractor this morning announced the delivery of its first MK-V unit. The “smart tractor” is electric and what the Bay Area-based company refers to as “driver optional” (terms like “autonomous” ...

What happens when a tractor maker and a robot designer combine forces? Timing is everything on the farm. If you want to get your crops in at the peak of optimum weather in the spring then harvest them ...