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 ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Tampa Bay area strawberry farm owner hopes his technology can help keep strawberries in kitchens across America. “I fear without automation, we’re going to revert back to ...

The success of the TX Robotic Strawberry Harvester has helped its creator, Advanced Farm Technologies, secure funding to develop an automatic apple picker. (courtesy of Advanced Farm Technologies) A ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. — One of the biggest strawberry growers in the Tampa Bay region says it’s close to deploying a fully automated strawberry harvesting robot. Wish Farms has been helping to develop the ...

Ten years ago, a company called Agrobot demonstrated a strawberry-harvesting robot in a field in Davis, California. Today, Agrobot’s strawberry picker remains a prototype. The long wait underscores ...

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DUETTE — You may be eating robot-picked strawberries before you buy your first self-driving car. “I think the two technologies are competing,” said Manoj Karkee, an associate professor of ...

There have been groundbreaking advancements in modern farming—from an IIoT-in-the-field robotic strawberry picker to a weed-eradicating laser machine to automatic potato palletizing. This collection ...