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Driverless tractors are already farming 255,000 acres in Florida. Here's what that means for American food.
Autonomous Solutions Inc. has put self-driving John Deere tractors to work across U.S. Sugar's entire South Florida operation, the largest autonomous farm fleet ever deployed in American agriculture.

Construction robots are helping build homes faster, but humanoid builders are still science fiction
A labour shortage and a housing gap of 1.2 million homes are pushing the building industry toward automation. The real gains right now come not from robots swinging hammers, but from machines that prevent costly mistakes and factories that build homes indoors.

Driverless Diggers Are Already Moving Earth on Real US Construction Sites
Bedrock Robotics has put fully autonomous excavators to work in Texas and Nevada, with no operator in the cab. Here is what that means for construction workers and the projects they build.

The tractors are getting smarter, and farms may depend on it
An aging workforce and shrinking skilled labour pool are pushing AI off the screen and into the cab. Companies like Agtonomy are betting that the most important robots of this decade will look nothing like a human.