An automated strawberry-harvesting robot at Wish Farms in Plant City has shown progress toward full deployment for the upcoming strawberry season, its inventors say. Gary Wishnatzki, a ...

Large-scale strawberry harvests are tougher than they sound. The fruit is fragile and must be delicately plucked, usually by teams of laborers working slowly in the hot sun. If they’re bruised or the ...

DAVIS, Calif. — Walk into any grocery store this summer, and chances are you will be greeted by rows of strawberries. Until recently, each of those berries would have been individually hand-picked by ...

The World’s First Company to Bring Robotically Picked Strawberries to Grocery Stores, Advanced Farm, Plans Expansion into Apple Harvesting DAVIS, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 21, 2021– Advanced ...

DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, ...

Harvesting delicate fruit and vegetables with robots is hard, and increasingly us humans no longer want to do these jobs. The pressure to find engineering solutions is intense and more and more ...