Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in odd angles. Leaves hide what you need to see. For farmers facing labor ...

A scientist has explained why robots still struggle to pick tomatoes. Labor shortages in agriculture are driving growing ...

Apple growers facing tight labor costs may soon have a new tool in the orchard: a harvesting robot that not only picks the ...

Harvest robots are proving capable of cutting truss tomatoes, although crop characteristics and growing conditions are ...

Scientists have invested an inflatable apple-picking robot that uses similar technology as the inflatable "tube guy" ...

How to solve the problems of economic migrants and farming automation, asks a UK robotics company. Cue a controversial – and ...

A low-cost, simple robotic arm developed by Washington State University researchers might someday help with fruit picking and ...

In the farming of strawberries, high-bed cultivation somewhat eases the associated manual labor, but there is now a new lidar-assisted robot solution to to help harvest such soft fruit as strawberries ...

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 ...