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,… ...

Their robot, which they named "Ace of Spades," can not only harvest vegetables at impressive speeds; its creative design and red under-glow make it as eye-catching as it is efficient.

Ten years ago, a company called Agrobot demonstrated a strawberry-harvesting robot in a field in Davis, California. Today, Agrobot’s strawberry picker remains a prototype. The long wait ...

Josie Hughes: Robots can play a vital role in harvesting, as they can work 24 hours a day. We could have more precision harvesting – picking crops only when they are ready – which could reduce ...

The robot’s first target fruit to harvest is oranges, the most widely cultivated fruit globally. In the future, however, the system will be adapted to harvest many more types of citrus: lemons, ...

William Godsey ’18, left, and Bradley Miller, associate director of WPI’s Robotics Resource Center, examine the lionfish harvesting robot built by Godsey and his project team ...

Whether strawberries, asparagus or apples: when it comes to harvesting, skilled workers are often in short supply. Many ...

A system of robots that harvest and transport crops on their own without human assistance has been developed for use in agricultural facilities such as smart farms. The research team under Choi ...

"The robot can, for example, push leaves to the side using symmetrical or asymmetrical movements, or congruent and incongruent movements," says Dr. Dragoljub Surdilovic, a scientist at Fraunhofer IPK.