A 3D center for the printing of cells, tissues and organs has been set up in the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to enable researchers to print complex tissues and improve their integration into human organs, the university said.

'Swarm robots' – small, simple and inexpensive machinery – could reverse the trend in agriculture towards ever bigger machines, an agri-tech expert has said.

New Zealand’s largest apple grower-exporter T&G Global has begun using a robotic harvester on a commercial apple crop in what it describes as a “world-first”.

Stanford researchers have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel using solar power, electrodes and saltwater from San Francisco Bay.

As Craig Sutton weaves his way through John Deere’s Technology and Innovation Center’s (MTIC) Additive Manufacturing Lab (MTIC) in Moline, Illinois, his excitement about advancements in the technology – also known as 3D printing – is evident.

Agricultural technologies could help to obviate the effects of climate change and ensure the planet’s population growth doesn’t lead to a global hunger epidemic.