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 ...

Robot picking peaches More than 130 million pounds of peaches are produced in Georgia per year, and the Southern staple has a total farm gate value in excess of $71 million, according to recent ...

ARKANSAS, USA — It’s almost summertime, and with it comes many fruit seasons in Arkansas. Farmers will be busier than ever as they harvest their products, but could you imagine if those picking the ...

The use of drones in agriculture is becoming more of a necessity than a whim, with the massive urbanization process forcing farmers to switch to automated solutions. Aerial devices have a plethora of ...

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 ...

In the wave of agricultural automation, fruit picking has long been a technical challenge. Traditional manual harvesting is inefficient and costly, while fully automated robots often struggle with ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. — One of the biggest strawberry growers in the Tampa Bay region says it’s close to deploying a fully automated strawberry harvesting robot. Wish Farms has been helping to develop the ...

Inspired by a childhood game of unspooling measuring tape, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a new type of robotic gripper using the same flexible metal strip. Named ...

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 ...

Picking apples isn’t a challenge that you’d necessarily think calls for the latest high tech robotic technology to solve. That hasn’t been enough to stop California-based startup Abundant Robotics, ...

It takes a certain nimbleness to pick a strawberry or a salad. While crops like wheat and potatoes have been harvested mechanically for decades, many fruits and vegetables have proved resistant to ...

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 ...