A car in Denmark was recently the first in the world to drive 80 kilometres on a fuel blend containing biofuel from seaweed.

Collecting eggs, packing tomatoes, weeding, checking animal welfare, harvesting fruits, and detecting pests in crops will all be performed by robots in the not-too-distant future, says Erik Pekkeriet, Business Development Manager for the Agro Food Robotics programme in the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, one of the world’s top-ranked universities for agricultural research.

Plants can be the new oil — according to a team of scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.