AI and robots in AgriFoodTech

A three-layer audit of public Douyin data found zero agricultural produce sellers publicly disclosing artificial intelligence use, exposing fundamental limits in verifying compliance from platform search interfaces.

Shenzhen’s Drones Go Quiet for APEC Shenzhen spent years turning food-delivery drones into a tourist attraction. Now the

A comprehensive review published in Frontiers in Agronomy synthesizes recent advances in artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and robotics for precision weed management.

A systematic review of Web of Science literature reveals an exponential post-2016 rise in precision crop drone research dominated by the United States and China.

A new study finds that autonomous farming robots could reduce agricultural costs and emissions, with input efficiency driving the greatest potential benefits.

One expert says that it still depends on the perfect confluence of cheap power, favorable regulation, and reliable connectivity.

A study published in AI in Civil Engineering demonstrates that ensemble AI models, specifically Gradient Boosting with Decision Trees, can accurately predict the permeability of soil amended with waste foundry sand.

Field treatment using agricultural drones and their maintenance is a new line of business for Supercam launched by the company in 2026, the spokesperson said

Researchers have developed an improved RRT-APF algorithm that dramatically reduces path planning time and sampling nodes for robotic manipulators harvesting tomatoes in dense canopies.

3,500 Stingray AI laser robots deployed around salmon pens along the Norwegian coast 24/7 protect over 112 million fish from sea lice.

In a study published in Agriculture, researchers from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) propose a policy roadmap for an AI-driven precision farming approach to further improve indigenous and other livestock breeds' abilities to withstand extreme conditions in farming operations of all sizes and types.

ChatGPT's DALL-E 3 drew dairy farms as green pastures 94% of the time in a study of 4,800 AI images. Learn how a hidden prompt rewrite shaped them.

Researchers from the University of Johannesburg (UJ) have proposed a policy roadmap for an AI-driven precision farming approach designed to enhance the resilience of indigenous and other livestock breeds against extreme heat, drought, and other challenging conditions. The study, published

A comparative analysis indicates that artificial intelligence offers distinct pathways for food security in Nigeria and South Africa, shaped by stark infrastructural and structural differences.

Marine scientists monitoring commercial Atlantic salmon pens in Scotland have demonstrated that automated artificial intelligence systems can detect the emergence of debilitating gill disease by tracking shifts in collective swimming behaviour.

A Florida chimpanzee sanctuary had to deliver food to one of its 200 apes by drone this week because the property was swamped by heavy rain. But the animals stayed safe, and the water finally was receding significantly on Saturday, the organization said.

A comprehensive scientific review outlines how autonomous multi-agent artificial intelligence systems could transform agricultural research and field management while highlighting critical technical, safety, and legal hurdles.

A Chinese research team built a soil-sensing robot that scans the ground, scores candidate insertion points and matched expert judgment on 95.78 percent of field tests.

A decentralized peer-to-peer robotics protocol paired with lightweight edge computer vision enables autonomous robot swarms to coordinate field scanning and predict crop quality in real time.

Science investigation reveals firms have amassed tens of millions of hours of brain wave data from neurotech headbands, and face few constraints in using it

A handful of food delivery robots from Uber Eats and other platforms have gotten kicked and knocked over in Philadelphia and Los Angeles.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale reportedly backs a US startup planning a 30,000 capacity monkey farm amid rising prices and restricted international supplies.

CropLife Editor Eric Sfiligoj and Amy Asmus, Co-Owner of Asmus Farm Supply are joined by Dan Bjorklund, Technical Agronomy Lead from Landus Cooperative to break down early harvest trends and critical fall agronomy decisions for ag retailers. The post CropLife Retail Week: Fall Anhydrous Truths, Drone Scouting, and Iowa Harvest appeared first on CropLife.

A new artificial strawberry stem mimics natural bending behavior and withstands repeated cutting and healing, offering a low-cost platform for agricultural robotics research.

A handful of soil holds a crowded world of bacteria, fungi and other organisms. Scientists can collect their DNA, but much of it remains difficult to identify. Now, researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and partner institutions have developed an artificial intelligence tool that helps make sense of this genetic puzzle.

The defense contractor aims to fully bring back laptop manufacturing on U.S. shores, with its first BlueChip laptop prototypes having 90% procurement cost coming from suppliers in the U.S. and other allied countries.

A systematic review of IoT and AI-enabled microclimate regulation in poultry farming demonstrates that predictive climate management can achieve thermal stability of ±0.5 °C, leading to improved welfare and production efficiency.

A simulation-based study reports that a federated Edge-AI framework combining smart neck collars and a hybrid GBoost-LSTM model predicted dairy cattle disease with 95.12 percent accuracy while keeping raw sensor data on participating farms.

A spokesperson said it was removing inaccurate AI images and pausing the rollout of the tool.

Advances in biological artificial intelligence (AI) have brought biosecurity to the center of public debate, and the US Congress is now considering the Biosecurity Modernization and Innovation Act (1). Yet this debate, like biosecurity more broadly, remains focused largely on human health and overlooks the importance of pathogens that affect crops and livestock. The United States and governments worldwide should prioritize crop and livestock protection by minimizing the likelihood of deliberate pathogen attacks and making the targets less vulnerable to harm.

Just Eat has paused a trial of AI-generated menu photographs and removed inaccurate images after bizarre depictions of UK dishes circulated on Reddit, Instagram and X.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

American agriculture has a long history of adopting technology to improve productivity and efficiency. From advancement in seed genetics, to the precision technology that guides equipment down the field with… Source

A survey of 101 farmers in Punjab found that greater AI diffusion was associated with higher perceived productivity and profitability, but the cross-sectional design could not establish causation.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: OpenAI says it will make its AI models available on Google Cloud's model garden and Antigravity coding tool in the coming weeks, after launching on AWS in April  —  OpenAI will make its artificial intelligence models available for developers through Google's cloud, following years of competition between the two companies.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have developed an artificial intelligence system that organizes decades of food science research, helping engineers identify food properties and uncover previously unreported scientific relationships.

Public and private investments must address the financial barriers preventing women from benefiting fully from digital technologies and artificial intelligence as multiple global crises and aid cuts bite.

The family farmers who produce the lion’s share of Brazil’s staple foods are opening their arms to cutting-edge Chinese artificial intelligence in a bid to modernise operations and secure their future. Brazil and China agreed to a five-year cooperation programme in September aimed at giving smallholders – the backbone of the Brazilian agricultural sector – an AI boost after a decade of declining employment and limited access to affordable technology. Representatives of the Brazilian Agricultural...

Ag robotics specialist Reservoir is opening a new site in Washington State as its on-farm community for physical AI expands to tree fruit and blueberries. The post Reservoir Farms expands to Pacific Northwest to accelerate physical AI appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Advances in weed management technology could reduce reliance on herbicides and manual labor, but a new review from the University of Mississippi and Cornell University indicates those tools also bring steep costs and potential challenges.

A large-scale analysis of marine species names reveals that nearly one in five epithets within the same genus differ by three edits or fewer, exposing hidden risks in the fuzzy matching tools that underpin biodiversity big data.

A new architecture-diverse TabNet ensemble classifies seven crop types from harmonized multi-source soil data with 90.5 percent accuracy, outperforming XGBoost and single optimized models.

A new reusable strawberry stem made from hot melt adhesives provides a standardized, low-cost testbed for validating robotic harvesting systems.

A new study in Scientific Reports introduces a hybrid framework using variable fuzzy sets and convolutional neural networks to assess and predict the resilience of fresh agricultural supply chains across China.

A sweeping review in Food Chemistry: X maps how AI, IoT, blockchain and green analytical chemistry could transform veterinary drug residue surveillance across global food chains.

A sweeping review finds AI delivers impressive agricultural gains in irrigation, soil management, and pest detection, but warns that spatial overfitting, poor reproducibility, and a structural climate resilience divide leave the world's most vulnerable farmers behind.

Innovative investment mechanisms can help women farmers overcome financial barriers to digital agriculture and boost their incomes, says World Bank agriculture adviser Shobha Shetty.

A new end-to-end AI detector called SFM-DETR combines Mamba state space modeling with frequency-domain analysis to identify maize seedlings and weeds in complex fields with record accuracy and real-time speed.

New funding will help establish manufacturing facilities for two automated technologies – robots that install solar panels, and robots that drive foundation piles. The post Solar robotics innovators win Arena funding to build manufacturing plants on Australian soil appeared first on Renew Economy.

Researchers in India have developed a hierarchical feature fusion transformer that identifies seventeen jute pest species with 98.43 percent accuracy, outperforming all previously published methods.

A prospective study of 447 food-allergic infants reports a cost-sensitive ensemble model that predicts school-age asthma with an AUC of 0.886 and zero missed cases using routine clinical data collected before age two.

CHICAGO — Rural internet providers are confronting a new reality as farms rapidly adopt smart technology for precision agriculture. The growing reliance on data from sensors, drones and automated equipment has elevated connectivity from a simple convenience to a core utility essential for daily operations. This technological shift creates an urgent demand for providers to […] The post Smart Farms Need Smart Support: How Rural Internet Providers Are Adapting to Precision Agriculture appeared first on Morning Ag Clips.

Researchers have built a multilingual transformer-based AI system that diagnoses crop diseases, generates farming advice, and delivers market intelligence while sustaining 10,000 concurrent users at 0.35 seconds per query.

A comprehensive review argues that sustainable rice production depends on integrating microbiome engineering, synthetic microbial communities, precision agriculture, renewable energy and climate-smart policy into a single coordinated system.

A systematic review finds that blockchain, IoT and artificial intelligence are transforming food supply chains, with integrated digital frameworks offering the best hope for cutting waste, fraud and emissions.

China has unveiled a smart robot prototype designed to assist with wheat breeding in the latest step in its ongoing drive to advance agricultural technology and bolster food security. The robot made its public debut at a recent seminar on wheat breeding, state-run China Science Daily reported on Friday. Traditional wheat breeders rely on a wealth of accumulated experience to identify and select strains with superior traits from tens of thousands of hybrid offspring. But this requires manual...

Researchers at Kookmin University have developed AlterProtX, an AI framework that compares animal and non-animal proteomes at scale to identify sustainable protein alternatives with the functional properties food products require.

Australian researchers used mid-infrared spectroscopy and explainable machine learning to accurately predict how much stable carbon soils hold and how much more they could sequester.

Researchers have developed an iterative residual correction method that uses new soil profile data to significantly improve the accuracy and reliability of existing probabilistic soil maps, as demonstrated across California.

A new drone-based study shows that ordinary cameras can map plastic film residues on farmland, while purpose-built short-wave infrared sensors could make soil plastic monitoring unambiguous.

DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in comparison: It has just around 300 restaurants signed up in the Bay Area, where it's operating as a pre-seed startup. But this summer, Bites caught DoorDash's attention. In August, a slew of restaurants in the Bay Area received a strange email from DoorDash, warning businesses that they may be listed without their consent on Bites. The form letter, copies of which were seen by The Verge, said that DoorDash had heard from "several partners" that were adde … Read the full story at The Verge.

The fifth annual Farm Robotics Challenge will enable students from middle school through graduate school to enter agricultural automation projects and compete for prizes. The contest is held each year by the University of California and USDA.

Microalgae (microscopic organisms that use light and carbon dioxide to grow) can be used to make ingredients and food for animals, pigments and potentially renewable fuels. But growing microalgae efficiently at an industrial scale is difficult.

A survey of 219 communal cattle farming households in Lupane District, Zimbabwe, identifies affordability, awareness, and institutional trust as the key barriers to insurance adoption and proposes a tri-modular AI framework combining biometric identification, satellite drought triggers, and voice-first local-language interfaces to overcome them.

ODYSS N1 uses a camera and AI to log meals automatically, but its food recognition and calorie estimates still lack independent device-specific validation. The post ODYSS N1 AI Necklace Wants to Track Everything You Eat Without Food Logging appeared first on TechRepublic.

The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture has appointed José Peiretti as its new row crop precision agriculture Extension specialist, tasked with generating independent, statewide data on which technologies truly benefit growers.

Deep learning has swept through agriculture with promises of smarter irrigation, but a new four-year study from the University of Georgia’s Stripling Irrigation Research Park delivers a refreshingly sober message: when it comes to predicting how dry a peanut field’s root zone will become over the next week, the simplest possible forecast—assuming nothing changes—remains remarkably […]

Robotic fruit picking has long promised to ease the labor crunch facing orchard growers, but the promise has repeatedly collided with a stubborn technical reality: a robot’s camera sees a chaotic world of overlapping leaves, dappled light, and fruit hanging at awkward angles. A study published in BMC Plant Biology by Hongyan Zhu, Runlong Cao, […]

AI-powered drones are transforming field monitoring, turning aerial data into actionable intelligence that helps agribusinesses prioritize inspections and improve efficiency. The post Beyond Crop Scouting: How AI-Powered Drones Could Reshape Precision Agriculture appeared first on CropLife.

DoorDash has revealed more details of its drone program, while Amazon is facing noise complaints over its drones.

For decades, measuring how efficiently a crop photosynthesizes has meant clamping leaves into portable gas-exchange devices one at a time, a slow and painstaking process that limits how many plants a breeder can realistically evaluate. Now a team of researchers in China has built a deep learning framework that can estimate more than a dozen […]

Will farmers want AI tools to help judge when to pick fruit, or is their own intuition enough?

Drone surveys have transformed the way scientists watch soil disappear. With a few hundred overlapping photographs and a technique called structure from motion, a small unmanned aircraft can reconstruct a field surface in three dimensions at millimetre to centimetre resolution, revealing rills, gullies and subtle surface lowering that would once have required weeks of laborious […]

A drone that decides, mid-flight, exactly where to spray herbicide and where to hold its nozzles has moved a step closer to the field. Researchers at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have built and tested an adaptive sprayer control system that mounts on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), images the soybean canopy […]

Few crops punish forecasting errors quite like strawberries. The fruit is delicate, the season is short, and every punnet that ripens without a picker or a cold-chain slot waiting for it is money left rotting in the field. A new study published in Smart Agricultural Technology shows that daily strawberry yields on a working commercial […]

FBN will make the first features available to early test users now, with a broader rollout expected this fall. The post FBN and Google team up to give farm AI the context it’s been missing appeared first on AgFunderNews.

Soil contaminated with toxic metals is one of the most stubborn environmental problems of our time. Lead, chromium, and uranium do not break down into harmless substances the way organic pollutants eventually do; they persist in the ground for decades, seeping into crops, groundwater, and ultimately the food chain. Traditional cleanup approaches, from digging out […]

Artificial intelligence promises to transform food safety by helping companies identify risks earlier, predict outbreaks and learn from patterns too rare for any one company to detect alone. But AI depends on one thing: large, diverse datasets.

The Farm Robotics Challenge launched its 2027 season on Sept. 15, unveiling a new three-division competition structure, a Startup pathway for teams committed to launching a company and more than $200,000 in prizes and startup support backed by a coalition of industry partners. Watch the 2027 Launch Webinar replay to learn about the new divisions, awards, Startup pathway and … The post Farm Robotics Challenge Launches 2027 Season appeared first on California Ag Network.

Food in Senegal is mostly grown on small-scale, rain-dependent farms, leaving much of the population vulnerable to climate shocks, according to the World Food Programme. However, satellite crop-mapping technologies designed to monitor the impact of climate on farming are largely beyond the reach of the West African country.

Smart farms run on a quiet promise: that the sensors watching soil moisture, temperature, and nutrient flow are telling the truth. When a sensor drifts, freezes, or fails outright, the automated systems that irrigate fields and regulate greenhouses can respond to fiction instead of fact, quietly overwatering crops or letting them dry out. A new […]

Every year, contaminated food sickens more than one in ten people worldwide and is estimated to cause over 4.2 million deaths, according to figures from the World Health Organization cited in a sweeping new review published in Food Science & Nutrition. Against that backdrop, researchers argue that artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic curiosity […]

McDonald's shares fell 4.81% after it unveiled its $8.5bn NEXT strategy to modernise restaurants and revive customer traffic amid weak sales.

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio partner to advance AI-powered agriculture

The collaboration aims to advance agricultural resilience and crop-based carbon removal using AI technologies. Read more: Oracle and Wild Bio collab to advance AI-powered agriculture

Some Samsung Bespoke AI refrigerator owners in South Korea say an official SmartThings update caused cooling failures and other problems before Chuseok, prompting an emergency recovery operation.

Modern agriculture has quietly become one of the most data-intensive industries on the planet. Fields dotted with soil sensors, drones overhead, automated irrigation lines, and networked greenhouses generate continuous streams of telemetry that must be routed to cloud servers, analyzed, and turned into decisions within seconds. As farms scale up their digital infrastructure, the plumbing […]

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Every autumn, across the rolling farmland of northern Europe, fleets of massive harvesters rumble through sugar beet fields, tearing the pale, tapering roots from the soil at a rate of dozens of tonnes per hour. It is a brutal, high-speed operation, and the crop pays a price. Beets get their tops sliced too deeply during […]

A substantial number of Samsung fridge owners have been left without any way to chill their food.

New research in Plants, People, Planet demonstrates how precision agriculture techniques involving drones and sensor-based irrigation can save water needed to produce tomatoes and grapes while also improving the quality of these crops.

Bitterness is one of the most stubborn problems in modern food production. During the fermentation of kefir, the ripening of Parmesan and mountain cheese, or the processing of protein powders and hydrolysates, proteins are broken down into smaller fragments called peptides. Some of these peptides bind to bitter taste receptors on the human tongue, and […]

Plant-based burgers, dairy-free cheeses, and meat analogues live or die by their texture, yet predicting how a new formulation will feel in the mouth remains one of the most stubborn challenges in food science. Mechanical and rheological properties of dense food structures emerge from tangled interactions among proteins, polysaccharides, moisture, and processing history, so two […]

Every year, the world applies millions of tonnes of agrochemicals to crops and consumes billions of doses of pharmaceuticals, yet the safety story rarely ends when these compounds do their intended job. Once released into soil, water, and the human body, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and drugs are transformed by sunlight, microbes, plants, and metabolism into […]

The Wargame on Sky TV is adding a biting sense of realism to Russia developments in the news this week — but critical scenes have been created using AI.

As heat waves, frosts and droughts increasingly batter the world’s wheat fields, a team of researchers in China has unveiled a deep learning model that can predict winter wheat yields with remarkable accuracy—and do so roughly a month before harvest, even in years dominated by extreme climate events. The model, called MBF-HybridNet, was developed and […]

Researchers affiliated with the SETI Institute propose screening lunar soil with AI for microscopic technosignatures, while stressing that the study presents no evidence of extraterrestrial technology

Norway's first fully automated facility for vegetable production was put into operation last fall. This spring, the first products hit store shelves.

From horse-drawn ploughs to autonomous tractors, Ireland’s National Ploughing Championships brought together the traditions and technologies shaping modern farming, serving as a vital meeting point for the wider European agricultural community.

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra spent hours just farming potatoes after dying and losing all of its gear during a Minecraft test.