With every ProMat I attend, I’m amazed at how many new twists there are in robotic order picking systems, especially those that embed an advanced vision and artificial intelligence (AI) software layer ...

With an ever-increasing global population, the agricultural community can no longer rely on human-only cultivation and harvesting for the current and future demand for food. Machine harvesting has ...

One of our state's largest crops is about to meet its new robot pickers. Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus Washington state produces a majority of America’s apples, and until now pretty much all 2.5 ...

A low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University researchers may someday help with fruit picking and other farm chores. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

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The companies say seven additional ZenRobotics Heavy Pickers will be deployed at an undisclosed American facility following the installation of three robots at the same site in 2024. “We are excited ...

A new farm, called "The Reservoir," is located right off Highway 68 outside of Salinas. It's the first on-farm incubator in California, combining a working test farm for specialty crops with robotics ...

Traditionally, agriculture conjures images of workers tilling fields and picking crops. But as climate change has led to longer dry seasons, strained water supplies and reduced yields, farmers have ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could ...

Low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arms like this one, developed by WSU researchers, may someday help with fruit picking and other farm chores. PULLMAN, Wash — A low-cost, simple robotic apple ...