A bowl of salad is a beautiful collection of human ingenuity. The lettuce requires its own specialized agricultural process, as do the tomatoes, as do the garbanzo beans. Then comes the simple act of ...

When is low-hanging fruit not low-hanging fruit in the robotics industry? According to Dan Steere, CEO and co-founder of California-based Abundant Robotics, when the task in question is coming up with ...

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 ...

Oregon State University researchers have created an artificial environment that simulates apple trees to collect data on its robot hand, regardless of growing season. This fake apple is attached via a ...