SPOKANE — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farm workers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could change ...

Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates ...

With labor shortages leaving a wealth of fruit to rot on trees, farmers around the globe are seeing a glimmer of hope on the horizon as AI-driven robots fly to their rescue. These tech marvels are ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global robotic fruit picker market 2018-2022 is expected to post a CAGR of over 98% during the forecast period, according to the latest market research report by Technavio ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Global Robotic Fruit Picker Market 2018-2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The Global Robotic Fruit Picker Market to grow at a CAGR of ...

Oregon State University researchers have created an artificial environment that simulates apple trees to collect data on its robot hand, regardless of growing season. This fake apple is attached via a ...

Farming is undergoing a remarkable transformation thanks to cutting-edge technologies reshaping how fruit is picked and handled. While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already ...

Fieldwork Robotics – a spinout company from the University of Plymouth in the UK – has announced the successful completion of early field trials of a raspberry-harvesting robot. If commercialized, the ...

The airstreams move the leaves for the grippers to reach the strawberry. The picking efficiency of the system was ...

AUSTIN — A group of UT students invented a robotic fruit harvesting platform that, when completed, is supposed to pick fruit from orchards. It's called the LV Fruitfly. Developed in the University of ...

DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, ...

A new robot is being developed to efficiently pick raspberries. The robot uses machine learning techniques to identify "supermarket ripe" raspberries via its cameras and sensors. The developers say it ...