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 ...

Traditional robots are designed to perform the same task over and over again, but struggle when it comes to adapting to uncertainty or changing situations. But a new fruit-picking robotic system uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With everything from self-driving tractors to robots being able to monitor crops, it’s no secret that agriculture is currently in the middle of a high-tech revolution. Well, robots just added another ...

As labor shortages make human pickers scarce and expensive, farms are turning to bots like this one to be the new generation of farm workers. The robot will begin pilot testing with strawberry farmers ...

ORLANDO, Fla., April 18 (UPI) --Florida strawberry growers are investing heavily in robots to pick their crops and control disease, partly in response to declining farm laborer immigration. Strawberry ...

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 ...