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

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 ...

Imagine a sea of wild berry bushes shimmering in the sun, the day’s harvest nearly done. Farm workers pack up after long ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...