This new field robot developed by a Turkish cotton farmer is fully electric, fully autonomous, and could harvest as much as 20% more cotton from existing farms. The Afara’s inventor claims that ...

In the rapid development of modern agriculture, picking robots, as a key technology to improve production efficiency, reduce labor costs, and improve operation quality are gradually becoming the focus ...

A few years ago, every booth at a Maker Faire had a 3D printer. It didn’t matter if 3D printing was only tangental to the business, or even if the printer worked. 3D printers have finally jumped the ...

When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Built in 1943, Old Red was one of the ...

The task of manual bin picking is tedious and slow, and every time a human touches a part, both wage costs and the potential for injury increase. A primary goal of many manufacturing facilities is to ...

Farmer John Tanui uses a motor-driven tea leaf picker at his farm in Kosirai, Chesumei constituency in Nandi County. He says the machine is more effective than old-age manual picking using hands.