James Johnson has witnessed the wrath of industrial agriculture. For decades, he and his family used fertilizer, herbicide and pesticide to achieve optimal yields on their 3,100-acre farm in New ...

Killer robots are coming to a farm near you. Well, weed-killing robots, that is. Developed by autonomous farming robot startup FarmWise, these weed-killing machines have already removed weeds from ...

The automated weeding machine before you may be the most efficient weeder in history. It can work all day. It destroys two weeds a second. And, it never goes on strike (unless it breaks down). About ...

For those who think the world of high technology looks only with scorn at Midwestern “flyover country,” FarmWise is proof otherwise. Two and a half years ago, the Silicon Valley company’s founders had ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Bryan Corliss on Apr 13, 2021 at ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on Sep 1, 2021 at 6:00 ...

The Future Farming Field Robot Catalogue has been expanded with eight new machines that together provide a clear snapshot of ...

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