We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Figuring out the best way to get rid of weeds in your garden has been a lifelong quest for many gardeners. Whether you've tried electric-shock ...

For sustainable farmers, hand-weeding can be laborious, backbreaking work and can cost upwards of $300 an acre in labor costs. A French startup called Naïo Technologies is hoping to solve this problem ...

Small Robot Company (SRC) is a pioneering UK-based agri-tech startup whose Farming-as-a-Service offering is based around a trio of lightweight robots — Tom, Dick and Harry — that respectively monitor, ...

This little dynamo — it can patrol 200 square feet of garden during a typical 1-to-2-hour stint — does all of the tedious toiling for you by preventing weeds to begin with. Ideally, you want to begin ...

According to the BGR, the tool is a perfect weed killer in flower beds, gardens, yards, and other areas that need trimming. The robot is built by the same manufacturer that created the Roomba robot ...

CASSELTON, N.D. — There were sugarbeets planted near Casselton, North Dakota, in July, weeks after normal planting would be complete. The reason? The developers of an autonomous weeding robot need to ...

Controlling weeds remains vital in vegetable production. With rising labor costs and labor shortages, farmers continue to rethink their approach to effective weed management, and weeding robots have ...

Kenneth Kioria Gicira and Michael Mwaisakenyi, Mechatronic Engineering students at JKUAT who invented the weed robot. Two Mechatronic Engineering students at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture ...

Developed by one of the cofounders of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, the Tertill ($349) is a unique robot that patrols your garden looking for weeds to whack. It’s easy to use and doesn't require ...