The boxy robot — named after a retired employee at the WAM Pennings farm near the Dutch North Sea coast — is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from the bulb fields as ...

In February that year, bulb wholesalers gathered in Haarlem, a day's walk west of Amsterdam, to find that nobody wished to buy. Within a few days, Dutch tulip prices had fallen tenfold.

As tulip fields burst into a riot of springtime color, Theo stands as a silent sentinel, safeguarding the vitality of Dutch bulb fields. With its unparalleled precision and efficiency, this AI ...