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.

125 new jobs have come on stream at an Irish medical devices company.

The company behind the confidential Zerflow report into the electronic voting system used during the Nice referendum have said they are standing by their findings.

elta Partners has provided €1.1m seed funding for Dublin laser optics company Tsunami Photonics.