by admin | Dec 13, 2024 | agriculture, AI, artificial intelligence (AI), Border Collie, farming, Industry News, Machine learning, News, Other Tech News, SwagBot
What if cows could herd themselves? They’re probably not there just yet (Ed: if you know of any self-herding cows please reach out to us) but researchers at the University of Sydney will tell you their ‘SwagBot’ is the next best thing. Border Collies will soon be out... by admin | Oct 16, 2024 | agriculture, AI, Autonomous drone, dell, farming, Industry News, Moyo, News, Other Tech News
Dell Technologies and Moyo, a digital business consultancy based in South Africa, have teamed up to introduce South African potato farmers to an autonomous drone that uses AI to detect potato leaf disease with impressive accuracy. If you’re one of those farmers and... by admin | Apr 7, 2024 | farming, industry, Lesotho, News, Other Tech News, South Africa, The Conversation, water
The main water supply to South Africa’s economic hub, greater Johannesburg in the Gauteng province, and to the country’s breadbasket in the Free State, is scheduled to be cut off for six months. Maintenance work on the 37 kilometre Lesotho Highlands Water Project... by admin | Jan 6, 2024 | eSoil, farming, News, Other Tech News, researchers, smart dirt, soil, Technology News
In the 21st century, everything is being enhanced through technology. By ‘everything’, though, we weren’t expecting to include good old soil. But that’s just what researchers at Sweden’s Linköping University claim to have achieved. Called eSoil, the Swedish... by admin | Dec 2, 2023 | agriculture, AI, farming, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios of superintelligent machines, AI is a useful tool in many fields. In fact, it has enormous potential to benefit humanity. In... by admin | Jul 19, 2023 | Africa, farming, News, Other Tech News, Technology, The Conversation
Cultivating one hectare of maize used to be an arduous task for Precious Banda, a farmer in Zambia. It would take her hundreds of hours to prepare her land before sowing and to keep it weed-free until harvest – equipped with nothing but a small hoe. She says it was...