The breakthrough sensors designed to improve crop health monitoring
These miniature, low-cost sensors with infrared imaging capabilities can be easily fitted to drones and satellites to help farmers remotely ...
Tag: agriculture
Crop check: AI gives rise to Australian-made spore-trapping technology
This engineer has developed an award-winning device to help farmers keep their crops healthier while using pesticides less often.
Engineering agricultural solutions to climate change
Agtech startup Regrow founder and aeronautical engineer Anastasia Volkova is pioneering food production processes to better withstand floods, droughts and ...
WED22: Commercialising soil carbon
Soils have been recognised as living systems that require certain biologically active conditions before soil carbon can be built.
Purple Hive uses artificial intelligence to keep bees parasite-free
With off-the-shelf parts, artificial intelligence and a little ingenuity, two engineers have devised a purple box that could save the ...
Engineers taste success with olive oil business
By applying lessons from their professional careers to food production, a married couple of engineers built a unique olive oil ...
Will luminescent plants light up the future?
Engineers from MIT have created a light-emitting plant that has the capability to glow brightly for several minutes.
This engineer wants Australians to stop flushing opportunity down the toilet
New technology that can convert human urine into fertiliser onsite could enable an expansion of urban farming and eventually provide ...
Jason Chan is shaking up the world of agricultural machinery
Jason Chan’s inventive thinking and technical creativity are shaking up the world of agricultural machinery.
This new tool could identify ‘smoke taint’ in wine early in the process
A South Australian researcher is combining materials science, engineering and applied photonics to help winemakers detect smoke taint in grapes ...
