In the field of giant autonomous robotics designed for agriculture, we have Robots now enter the agriculture industry, too. First the award-winning rice-transplanting robot, now this: Major Japanese conglomerate Fuji Heavy Industries has developed an agricultural robot that can tend fields autonomously. The company says the robot is the first of its kind. It runs [...]

eBay would like some publicity. In exchange for YOU building a robot out of parts that you could feasibly purchase on eBay (a rather loose parameter), you might have the chance to win $5,000! $5,000 of course being .000002 percent of eBay’s third-quarter revenue. [sourcing that.] So if you happen to be building a robot [...]

Welcome to the first in a series of posts regarding existing research in garden robotics. This section of the blog will be used to highlight and synopsize relevant research and projects. Most of which will not feature very pretty ladies from the past and their robot friends.

What happens when two groups who have never talked before share conversation space? What ideas grow out of that generative process? What processes of guidance and mediation guide disparate individuals, communities, and specialized knowledge holders to fruitful imaginations of how technology can impact community? How best can we focus this conversation space towards a specific [...]