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 ...

Imagine a sea of wild berry bushes shimmering in the sun, the day’s harvest nearly done. Farm workers pack up after long ...

Computer Science and Engineering student India Spott, a member of Sanfelice’s Hybrid Systems Lab, works on a robotic manipulator with a synthetic blueberry. The agricultural industry has long faced ...

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 ...