Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers get to grips with a new-age way of picking apples using a fruit harvesting machine. Photo / Jared Morgan It is called the Tecnofruit CF-105 and the fruit-harvesting machine ...

WAPATO, Wash. — It was a tight squeeze in the 10-foot-wide rows. A few limbs ladened with Fuji apples were broken as the Bandit Xpress-DBR harvest assist platform navigated the Valicoff Fruit Co.

Harvesting delicate fruit and vegetables with robots is hard, and increasingly us humans no longer want to do these jobs. The pressure to find engineering solutions is intense and more and more ...

KUCHING: Sarawak Plantation Bhd has developed its own innovative oil palm fruit harvesting machine to address the long-standing shortage of fruit harvesters faced by the industry and boost production ...

Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight but pauses to decide which individual tomato is worth picking. Instead of ...

In the wave of agricultural automation, fruit picking has long been a technical challenge. Traditional manual harvesting is inefficient and costly, while fully automated robots often struggle with ...

Getting more blueberries from the field to the grocery store, without hurting their quality, is the focus of a new nationwide research project led by a faculty member in the University of Georgia ...