Researchers are developing robots that promise to automate a process that has always relied on human workers—and bees.

We have one robot that is already being used in the ... them to the pack house before driving back out to carry on picking. Kiwi-fruit are relatively easy as they hang down from an overhead ...

Soft-fruit picking bots can pluck a strawberry in a field and place it delicately in a punnet of other berries without ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Robots are getting more advanced every day. But many of them have difficulties performing delicate tasks and adapting to changing circumstances. This new invention ...

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Tech companies in Israel have designed fruit-picking drones and tree-pollinating "paddles" to make farms more efficient at a time of worker shortages and climate change. In Chile, flying robots ...

At a waste-to-energy facility at Minnesota humans will no longer sort through trash and pick ... robotic arms. The click and swipe process used by Jodone was apparently inspired by Fruit Ninja ...