The English company Dogtooth presented its picking robot for harvesting strawberries during Strawberry Day on 7 January.

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 ...

Yet another field of expertise has been wiped out by some steel pincers—strawberry-pickers. Japan’s robot detects which berries are at least 80 per cent red, and picks them gently off the vine. It’s ...