Humans often use one hand to grasp the branch for better accessibility, while the other hand is used to perform primary tasks like (a) branch pruning and (b) hand pollination of the flower. (c) An ...

Reservoir Farms celebrates its grand opening, launching a premier agtech incubator to accelerate startups through on-farm innovation.

A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This ...

Thanks to a new technology, agricultural robots may be getting a serious skill improvement in tending to crops. SonicBoom, a sensing technology developed by the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon ...

In the face of rising global agricultural labor costs and an aging workforce, a new review published in Engineering explores how agricultural robots are leveraging advanced hand–eye coordination ...

Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, but the laborers who do the backbreaking work of harvesting them might continue to dwindle. While raised, high-bed cultivation somewhat ...

What started out as a response to labor shortages in poultry processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic has turned into a robotics system that can learn by imitating human movements ...

Global electronic waste reached approximately 62 million metric tons in 2022, with soft robots—widely ...

Innovations Shaping the Future of Robotics. It feels like robots are everywhere these days, doesn’t it? And it’s not just science fiction anymore. The way robots are being bui ...