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 ...

Low-cost robots which can harvest and package strawberries in a matter of seconds have been trialled in Essex as part of ambitious plans to tackle a labour shortage in the industry. The University of ...

A robot can clean your house, drive your car and even deliver your food. Now, a robot could even pick delicate strawberries in a field, easing the burden on farmers. The Mohamed Bin Zayed University ...

Robots designed to pick strawberries are being trialed by a farm that makes jam for the royal family. The robots are part of a £1m project, funded by DEFRA, and can identify the ripe fruit and pick ...

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 ...

PULLMAN, Wash. -- Strawberries are delicate and hard to harvest—easily bruised and often hidden under a canopy of leaves. This creates headaches for scientists trying to design robotic harvesters. Now ...

Strawberry season may be getting streamlined thanks to new robot coworkers developed at UC Davis. Using an innovative prediction and scheduling system, Fragile cRop hArvest-aIding mobiLe robots, or ...

Yet another field of expertise has been wiped out by some steel pincers—strawberry-pickers. Japan’s robot detects which berries are at least 80 per cent red, and picks them gently off the vine. It’s ...