In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

Autonomy of Things (AoT®) has made significant inroads in outdoor agriculture. Controlled environment, indoor agriculture is ...

A researcher has developed an autonomous driving algorithm for agricultural robots used for greenhouse cultivation and other farm work. Strawberry fields forever will exist for the in-demand fruit, ...

Vision‐based navigation has emerged as a cornerstone of precision agriculture, enabling autonomous platforms to traverse crop environments with minimal human intervention. By combining onboard cameras ...

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 ...

Western Growers' Walt Duflock at the CAPCA Annual Conference. (photo: Brad Hooker) California’s transition away from conventional pesticides is helping to drive a burgeoning ag biotech market. Walt ...

The South Korean government is moving to develop agricultural robots and drones to address chronic labor shortages and an ...

Robots are finding their way into virtually every industry requiring physical labor, and agriculture is no exception. Tech startups and university research labs have spent the last several years ...

Collision-free path planning and task scheduling optimization in multi-region operations of autonomous agricultural robots present a complex coupled problem. In addition to considering task access ...

The left image shows the tomato-picking robot and camera. The right image shows a ‘robot-eye view’ of the tomatoes. Red represents mature fruits, green indicates immature fruits, and blue indicates ...