The robots are coming... to water your garden. While many people find gardening with their own two hands a relaxing activity, a company called FarmBot is now selling robots designed to weed, water and ...

The FarmBot web app allows users to drag-and-drop their garden design like the popular video game Farmville. Then the FarmBot does the rest: it plants seeds, waters each plant according to its type, ...

FarmBot’s innovative home gardening robot is inching closer to its official availability, as the company has been accepting pre-orders since the beginning of July. The money is rolling in quickly for ...

Across the Northern Hemisphere it is now summer and the growing season is in full swing. Vigorous plants that will soon bear tasty fruit are springing forth from the soil, but unfortunately so are a ...

Farmbot Inc. hopes to revolutionize food production one garden bed at a time. At the heart of the San Luis Obispo-based company is an automated and open-sourced farming machine, the FarmBot, which ...

Having zero green thumbs, I get a little excited each time I hear about a technological advancement in farming that could help people like me successfully grow our own food. A few years back, we ...

Farmbot has developed a camera sensor that can physically see water infrastructure, gates, fences or other assets, and send important data to farmers in a cinch. Without the need to see troughs, dams, ...

FarmBot Genesis claims to be “humanity’s first open-source CNC farming machine.” It claims to make farming easy by letting users tell the robot what plants they’ve put in the ground and then take a ...

Agtech startup Farmbot has secured $4.6 million in a bridge funding round to help support its expansion plans in the US. The round, which was initially targeting $3 million, saw participation from ...

Agtech startup Farmbot will soon close $5 million in Series A+ funding to help with its expansion across Australia and the US. Telstra led the round with $2 million, which is the third time the telco ...

The world's population is expected to grow from about 7 billion to over 9 billion by 2050. That's means we're going to need more food. A lot more food. To grow it, the world's farms must increase ...