Future harvests are going high-tech, as advanced robots take over the delicate job of picking fresh fruit.

Picking fruit sounds simple until the fruit is heavy, easily bruised, and ready at different times on the same plant. A new ...

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 ...

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 ...

This visual overview, featuring images and videos of robotics applications in the food industry, illustrates what is possible ...

The University of Essex (UoE) has won a national award for its robots, designed to ease the strain for the harvesting industry. In October 2024, the university's robotics team announced what they ...

The left image shows the tomato-picking robot and camera. The right image shows a ‘robot-eye view’ of the tomatoes. Red represents mature fruits, green indicates immature fruits, and blue indicates ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...