HAINAN, China—An automated rubber tapping robot, featuring long-range low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN), has won a first-of-its-kind design award in China. The automation and monitoring system ...

ELAMGULAM, Kerala (Reuters) - Several rubber farmers have put away their tapping knives and switched to planting other crops, as ample global supplies and sinking benchmark prices of the tyre-making ...

KOCHI: His ability to think out of the box and come up with incredible inventions had prompted several rubber plantation owners to approach Zachariah Mathew and ask him to design a motorised rubber ...

HAIKOU, March 24 (Xinhua) -- In a bid to tackle the chronic labor shortages plaguing its natural rubber industry, China has unveiled a mobile rubber-tapping robot, marking a leap forward in ...

MUMBAI/JAKARTA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Global natural rubber output could drop for a second straight year in 2015 as prices near six-year lows have prompted Asian farmers to curtail tapping during their ...