SPOKANE — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farm workers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could change ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Robotic Fruit Pickers Global Strategic Business Report" has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global market for robotic fruit pickers is estimated to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DailyRobotics prepares for 2026 debut in California with a robotic harvester it claims can pick strawberries 2-3x faster than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Padded prongs of a FFRobotics robotic apple picker grabs a Kanzi apple in a Columbia Fruit Packers orchard east of Quincy, Wash., on Nov. 6, 2019. The Israeli-made machine may be sold in Washington ...

An overhead view of Israeli-made FFRobotics prototype apple picker. The eventual system combined with Automated Ag’s Bandit Cub platform likely will look different. Abundant Robotics picking apples ...

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 ...