This new field robot developed by a Turkish cotton farmer is fully electric, fully autonomous, and could harvest as much as 20% more cotton from existing farms. The Afara’s inventor claims that ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Built in 1943, Old Red was one of the ...

China has developed what is being touted as the 'world's first' laser-based cotton topping machine. With cotton picking being a manually laborious task, the new machine—which is an autonomous robot—is ...

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Still to achieve commercial importance is the extraordinary cotton-picking machine developed by the Rust brothers three years ago. Definitely a commercial success is another cotton machine with nearly ...

In a 60-acre field in rural Minturn, South Carolina, cotton farmer Roy Baxley, Jr. was on an important mission. His goal for this bright and sunny November morning was to get the last part of his ...

Old images of African Americans picking cotton remind many of the oppression suffered by generations of Black slaves before the Emancipation Proclamation. For Black Americans in particular, their ...