June 21 (UPI) --On a blustery March day at the Large Animal Research Station, just outside Fairbanks, Alaska, manager Emma Boone plods through the facility's northern paddock as a pair of teenage musk ...

Staffers care for about 80 calves and fully grown oxen at the 75-acre Musk Ox Farm. Photo Credit: Tom Bol/Mat-Su CVB Just off the Glenn Highway north of Palmer, stocky, shaggy musk oxen amble across ...

PALMER, Alaska (AP) — It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age. All moms get a daisy and free admission Sunday ...

Iron Ox – one of a flurry of high-tech indoor farming startups attracting significant interest from agtech investors in recent years – has closed a $53m series C round led by Breakthrough Energy ...

Thinking about farming musk oxen in Alaska for their qiviut but not sure you could actually make any money? It turns out that you could, but only with some big caveats. A new study, published in the ...

Iron Ox, a California-based technology startup, is pioneering the future of robotics and indoor agriculture. After years of research and development, the company is launching the world's first ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Companies want to use robotics and AI to revolutionize farming, but first, they have to prove there’s a market ...

For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perfecting its agricultural robots to tend its indoor farms. After first testing its systems on a small scale, the company is opening its ...

Iron Ox Inc., an automated farming startup from California, today announced it has raised $53 million in new funding led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures. This Series C funding round will bring the ...