Two of its seven floors are dedicated to what it calls its Smart Farm: a completely self-contained hydroponic farm where robot arms plant seeds and harvest crops with minimal human oversight.

The advance will help scientists quickly improve valuable plant traits, such as increasing oil production and optimizing photosynthesis. "If we can use robots for plant bioengineering, that is a ...

Researchers in China have developed a robot that identifies different plant species at various stages of growth by "touching" their leaves with an electrode. The robot can measure properties such ...

While fungi may help robots bet­ter interact with the world, plant powers could help devices better survive it. “Many artificial [tech­nologies] have a shelf life,” says materials scientist ...

I took a tour of Hyundai's new $7.6 billion Metaplant America EV factory in Georgia that will make 500,000 cars a year.

Nearly six months after announcing its partnership with BMW, Figure's gleaming silver humanoid robot is making significant progress in its training for manufacturing tasks. A recently released ...

Technology providers say their equipment is working in tandem to sort C&D materials at an RGS Nordic plant in Denmark.

As NASA holds simulations to test how living on Mars would work, perhaps these plant-inspired robots could help find ways to rework Mars soil, allowing colonies to one day build greenhouses ...

The plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, has previously used small robots to examine the inside of the reactors, but Tuesday was to be the first attempt by the robot and its ...

Using a custom-built imaging robot, the international research team of 28 scientists discovered that the fungi construct a lace-like mycelial network that moves carbon outward from plant roots in ...

Another is Figure, a California startup whose latest 02 humanoid robot recently completed a successful test program at BMW's plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The company previously ...

previewing a future in which humanoid robots could become auto plant workers. The Figure 02, revealed earlier this month, can learn to perform tasks that require dexterity, showing potential in ...