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Robotics, AI and automation have long been one of the hottest categories for tech investments. After years and decades of talk, however, those big payouts are starting to pay off.…

Listen to top VCs discuss the next generation of automation startups at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI

Five months after abandoning its proposed purchase of Monsanto’s precision planting subsidiary due to anti-trust concerns, agricultural equipment giant Deere and Company announced that it will spend $305 million to…

After scrapping Monsanto deal, Deere agrees to buy precision farming startup Blue River for $305M

It’s entirely possible — even probable — that the evolutionary, cutting-edge developments in the 21st century world of agriculture over the past few years have slipped under your radar. Fair…

Harvesting next-gen technologies for the farm

Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn,” a flood of new digital agriculture startups has been trying to turn investor interest into market traction. Bayer’s recent $62 billion…

Driving new revenue sources through a digital ag revolution

Blue River Technology, which uses robotics and computer vision to optimize agriculture by, for instance, determining which lettuces to thin out of a row and which to keep, has closed…

Blue River Technology Takes In Another $10M For Its Agriculture Optimizing Robots

Computer vision/robotics company Blue River Technology announced today that it has raised a $3.1 million Series A round of funding from Khosla Ventures. Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures and Stanford Angels…

Blue River Technology Raises $3.1 Million To Build Robots To Replace Chemical Herbicides