With an ever-increasing global population, the agricultural community can no longer rely on human-only cultivation and harvesting for the current and future demand for food. Machine harvesting has ...

Low-cost robots which can harvest and package strawberries in a matter of seconds have been trialled in Essex as part of ambitious plans to tackle a labour shortage in the industry. The University of ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- In a space where bots meet berries, the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville is working to fill a technological gap in farming. Anthony Gunderman, now an assistant professor in the ...

There have been groundbreaking advancements in modern farming—from an IIoT-in-the-field robotic strawberry picker to a weed-eradicating laser machine to automatic potato palletizing. This collection ...

Driscoll’s is so secretive about its robotic strawberry picker it won’t let photographers within telephoto range of it. But if you do get a peek, you won’t see anything humanoid or space-aged. AgroBot ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates headaches for scientists trying to design robotic harvesters. Now ...

The harvested strawberries remain in almost perfect condition, similar to those picked by human hands.

Essex University has won a national award for its robotics research which saw a robot pick Wilkin and Sons’ world-famous ...

The University of Essex has received a national award for developing agricultural robots designed to reduce labour strain in harvesting, with the technology ...

Computer Science and Engineering student India Spott, a member of Sanfelice’s Hybrid Systems Lab, works on a robotic manipulator with a synthetic blueberry. The agricultural industry has long faced ...