On industrial sites and large farms, critical work often happens in fields, hillsides and overgrown areas that are difficult or dangerous for people to access. CMU researchers are developing off-road ...

Thanks to a new technology, agricultural robots may be getting a serious skill improvement in tending to crops. SonicBoom, a sensing technology developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

Robots come in many forms, some surprising. For example, an elevator is a robot. It may not look like a typical robot, but the way it operates makes it a robot. Given the ubiquity, their farm ...

Farmers might be able to get help tending and harvesting crops using a new sensing technology from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute (RI). Researchers have invented a tool called ...