Across the Northern Hemisphere it is now summer and the growing season is in full swing. Vigorous plants that will soon bear tasty fruit are springing forth from the soil, but unfortunately so are a ...

It’s been a while since FarmBot made headlines transforming the average Joe into a seasoned gardener, but the do-it-yourself agricultural robot has been refreshed and is now available in two new ...

The FarmBot web app allows users to drag-and-drop their garden design like the popular video game Farmville. Then the FarmBot does the rest: it plants seeds, waters each plant according to its type, ...

Its ambitions might be smaller than the contraptions that can remotely plant miles of seeds, but Genesis looks incredibly impressive. Developed by a team of three from California, the kit is an ...

What if you could grow food in your backyard with little to no understanding of gardening? A new robotic system may make this a reality for everybody. Farmbot Genesis is an open source, autonomous ...

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Several school districts have received FarmBots — open-source, automated farming systems that integrate coding, robotics, and data science, and monitor variables such as soil moisture, temperature, ...

We may first feel the effects of job automation in factories, but many farms have already begun replacing laborers with robots. For years, Harvest Automation has been building compact robots that ...

Things that were conventionally very expensive industrial products such as 3D printers and laser processing machines have appeared one by one as an inexpensive self-made kit with open source.

FarmBot Genesis claims to be “humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine.” It claims to make farming easy by letting users tell the robot what plants they’ve put in the ground and then take a ...

Inmarsat and Farmbot have entered into an agreement that will enable the agtech startup to deliver its water monitoring software-as-a-service solution to farmers located anywhere in Australia. Under ...