The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood is set for California that will feature 15 eco-friendly homes starting at $595,000. The $15 million project is planned for Rancho Mirage in Coachella Valley and is a collaboration of the real estate group Palari and Mighty Buildings, which expect to complete the neighborhood next year. Mighty Buildings will use its robotics and automation to construct homes, which the firm says can be completed with 95 percent less labor hours and 10 times less waste. Residents of the futuristic housing can move into a single-story home with three bedrooms and two baths or a smaller unit with two bedrooms and one bath. The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood is set for California that will feature 15 eco-friendly homes starting at $595,000.

AI that can follow a person seems like a simple enough task. It's certainly a simple thing to ask a human to do, but what if people or objects get in the way of the robot following behind a person? How do you navigate an environment that's in a constant state of change? About a year ago at a robotics conference TechCrunch held at UC Berkeley, AI startup founders explored solutions for common problems encountered when trying to automate construction projects. Tessa Lau, CEO of Dusty Robotics, called attention to the challenge of moving machines in an unstructured environment filled with people.

It requires identifying specific use cases, as well as which fruit and vegetable growers to work with. When Burro.ai built a robot that uses autonomous driving to ferry produce between workers, it chose to initially focus on table grapes. By contrast, other agricultural AI startups like Ceres Imaging focused on high-value orchard crops like almonds and specialty crops like wine vineyards. Security drone maker Sunflower Labs is being used for automatic deployments on the perimeter of outdoor marijuana-growing operations. Last month, the company began delivering its first commercially available robots to grape growers near Coachella, California.

In this Thursday, July 11, 2019, photograph, United States Department of Agriculture intern Alex Olsen prepares to place down a drone at a research farm northeast of Greeley, Colo. After a brief, snaking flight above the field, the drone landed and the researchers removed a handful of memory cards. Back at their computers, they analyzed the images for signs the corn was stressed from a lack of water. This U.S. Department of Agriculture station outside Greeley and other sites across the Southwest are experimenting with drones, specialized cameras and other technology to squeeze the most out of every drop of water in the Colorado River – a vital but beleaguered waterway that serves an estimated 40 million people. Should they still be able to use it?