An automated strawberry-harvesting robot at Wish Farms in Plant City has shown progress toward full deployment for the upcoming strawberry season, its inventors say. Gary Wishnatzki, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

DAVIS, Calif. — Walk into any grocery store this summer, and chances are you will be greeted by rows of strawberries. Until recently, each of those berries would have been individually hand-picked by ...

DAVIS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Farm Technologies, Inc., developers of robotic technology for farmers, announced today it has completed a Series B investment round raising $25 million to ...

Robotic machines to pick everything from strawberries to apples are being tested and could one day help ease the farm labor crunch. Another agricultural technology in development involves small robot ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. (AP) - Automated harvesting is the Holy Grail for most agricultural commodities, so a group of knights errant from the Florida strawberry industry have begun a quest to build a ...

Strawberry season is a blip on the calendar, a few weeks in June when produce auctions and roadside stands burgeon with fresh, red berries. For Delton Zimmerman, it’s also the time to bring out his ...

Researchers have developed a plant-sorting machine that uses computer vision and machine learning to inspect and grade harvested strawberry plants and then mechanically sort them by quality -- tasks ...

DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, ...

The World’s First Company to Bring Robotically Picked Strawberries to Grocery Stores, Advanced Farm, Plans Expansion into Apple Harvesting DAVIS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Farm Technologies, ...