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 ...

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 ...

A pioneering raspberry-picking robot has been put through its paces in a "ground-breaking" agri-tech trial at a Norfolk fruit farm. Place UK, based at Tunstead, near North Walsham, is hosting 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 ...

It’s summer, and raspberries are in season. These soft, tartly sweet fruits are delicious but delicate. Most of the time, they have to be harvested by human hands. To help alleviate labor costs and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

A bowl of salad is a beautiful collection of human ingenuity. The lettuce requires its own specialized agricultural process, as do the tomatoes, as do the garbanzo beans. Then comes the simple act of ...

You might think that the future of robots is large bipedal units with a human appearance. But for a team of researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the next generation of robots is more ...

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 ...

An overhead view of Israeli-made FFRobotics prototype apple picker. The eventual system combined with Automated Ag’s Bandit Cub platform likely will look different. Abundant Robotics picking apples ...