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 ...

A robot can clean your house, drive your car and even deliver your food. Now, a robot could even pick delicate strawberries in a field, easing the burden on farmers. The Mohamed Bin Zayed University ...

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 a Washington ...

Robots designed to pick strawberries are being trialed by a farm that makes jam for the royal family. The robots are part of a £1m project, funded by DEFRA, and can identify the ripe fruit and pick ...

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 ...

The device, which can gather a piece of fruit every eight seconds, uses three cameras to determine which strawberries are ready to pick before darting out an arm and snipping them into its basket. The ...

Advanced Farm's robotic strawberry harvester picks strawberries in Davis, Calif. DAVIS, Calif. — Walk into any grocery store this summer, and chances are you will be greeted by rows of strawberries.

Strawberry season may be getting streamlined thanks to new robot coworkers developed at UC Davis. Using an innovative prediction and scheduling system, Fragile cRop hArvest-aIding mobiLe robots, or ...