Engineers have developed a vegetable-picking robot that can autonomously harvest iceberg lettuce, a manually demanding crop for human pickers. Vegebot was trained using a machine-learning ...

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers.

Hippo Harvest says it can grow lettuce using 92% less water than outdoor farming that can last a week longer on the store shelves. They're using repurposed warehouse robots to do it.

Now that Root AI's robot has mastered the art of picking oblong vegetables as well as oblate shaped berries, could this technology help enhance global food security?

The Harvest Automation robot costs around $25 to $50k and because the manipulation requirements of the robots are lower in this sector, the company focus on creating a viable business, reducing ...

Amazon-backed Hippo Harvest says it can slash the water needed to grow lettuce by more than 90% and use only precisely placed fertilizer with no risky runoff.

Lightweight robots harvest cucumbers Date: February 2, 2018 Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Summary: Automation-intensive sectors such as the automotive industry are not the only ones to rely on ...

Researchers in Shropshire, England have managed to sow and harvest a field of barley using nothing but robots. Many aspects of farming have now been automated, but rarely is the entire process ...