The global food system is changing radically as high-tech robots are put into service for every conceivable job. The giant corporate farm will finally be able to drive small farmers completely out of business in the process. ? TN Editor

Agricultural equipment manufacturer Case IH, a unit of CNH Industrial, just unveiled a seriously intimidating-looking tractor at the Farm Progress Show in Boone, Iowa. Called the Autonomous Concept Vehicle, the robotic tractor can be programmed using

A veteran gets a prosthetic leg up so he can get back to motocross and other extreme sports.

There's been a lot of focus on consumer self-driving technology recently, but autonomy promises to shake things up in the agricultural world too.

"All hands on deck" may become a thing of the past. Ship designers, their operators and regulators are gearing up for a future in which cargo vessels sail the oceans with minimal or even no crew.

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Over two centuries, little has changed in the way apples are harvested; by and large, it is still a manual process.

Fastbrick Robotics plans to commercialize their patented technology, and they're also developing an add-on for SOLIDWORKS software that uses 3D model data to create machine code for the size, cut, rotation and placement of the bricks.

Back in May, engineer Damon McMillan announced that his two-year garage project would start making its 2,000-mile solo voyage on Memorial Day.

Fastbrick Robotics, an ASX-listed company based in Perth, has created a robot brick layer, a form of 3D printing which can create the shell of a house without being touched by human hands.

In a Tweet issued by Tesla CEO Elon Musk following the reveal of Master Plan Part Deux, Musk revealed that the Tesla semi is likely much further along in the development process than we would've guessed.

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Called 'Virtual Actor', it is expected online within the next year and a half Machine will be used to play the role of a person, and set its own goals Will understand context of conversation and keep up with events Researchers will also create sim

A robot-powered burger joint is coming to San Francisco.

Switzerland is testing self-driving electric buses on public roads in the historical district of Sion, the largest city of the Canton of Valais. Passengers can use the buses free of charge.

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While we keep an eye on the journey of Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered plane that's currently in the middle of its record-setting, around-the-world flight, it looks like it has a buddy in the water. Solar Voyager, an autonomous, solar-powered kaya

Remotely piloted human mover cleared for trials in Nevada

Farmers, put your feet up. Autonomous robots are already being used to inspect crops, count yields and dig up weeds - now they are shepherds too.

Earlier this year, a small robotic helicopter flying through the Bavarian Alps made more than 100 deliveries between two villages that are within yodeling distance of each other but so far from anything else that they may as well be on Mars.

Picture an 18-wheel truck barreling down the highway with 80,000 pounds of cargo and no one but a robot at the wheel.

Registration has opened for the first public trial of autonomous self-driving cars in the UK.

Viv wowed the crowd during a public demo in New York

Colonel Sanders is raising a robot army to serve fried chicken at a restaurant near you.

SpaceX has nailed a night landing of its Falcon 9 booster. Against all expectations, the rocket not only achieved its second landing on the unmanned "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship, but did so in the dark, at high speed and with little fuel.

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The Friday afternoon news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide bad news. So it was a little weird that Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, and Sam Altman, president of famed te

Can China reboot its manufacturing industry--and the global economy--by replacing millions of workers with machines?

As the average age of farmers globally creeps higher and retirement looms, Japan has a solution: robots and driver-less tractors.

Many aerial drones now feature a Follow Me mode - that's where they can be instructed to autonomously fly along above you and shoot video as you ski, cycle, run or otherwise move about. However, what happens if you're a scuba diver? Well, in the ne

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US military apparently never tires of thinking up capability gaps, and that means we may soon see fleets of small drones dropping out of bombers, then later being yanked out of the sky by cargo planes.

There couldn't have been a more perfect launch than yesterday's. The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing, and SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket took off right on schedule.

SpaceX's next challenge will be in getting the Falcon 9 to shore

Today in space history, a rocket went to space. No big. But then it came back down and landed on a drone barge in the middle of the ocean.

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Using old military planes, humans can now plant up to one million trees per day to revamp or rebuild their deteriorated forests.

Believe it or not, autonomous race cars will soon be battling it out on the track.

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's side project Blue Origin launched its New Shepard rocket into space and back again on Saturday. This was the third time this particular rocket booster has flown and landed safely, underlining the design's potential for reusabi

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The robottom of the ocean

A flexible, paper-like ceramic material has been created that promises to provide an inexpensive, fireproof, non-conductive base for a whole range of new and innovative electronic devices (Credit: Eurakite).

Under the sea, it lay dreaming. The body, printed from machines, sealed carefully, still functioned. It survived one month under water, then two. The salt did nothing to stop it. It simply was, a waiting state of being.