Low-cost robots which can harvest and package strawberries in a matter of seconds have been trialled in Essex as part of ambitious plans to tackle a labour shortage in the industry. The University of ...

A robot can clean your house, drive your car and even deliver your food. Now, a robot could even pick delicate strawberries in a field, easing the burden on farmers. The Mohamed Bin Zayed University ...

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 ...

Robots designed to pick strawberries are being trialled by a farm which 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 ...

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 ...

This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, with technology dramatically reshaping how the food industry goes to market. Driverless trucks, strawberry picking robots, delivery drones and robots that ...

Better known for household vacuums, fans and hi-tech hair styling tools, James Dyson has turned his tech eye to farming by producing strawberries with the assistance of data crunching, drones, and yes ...

Yet another field of expertise has been wiped out by some steel pincers—strawberry-pickers. Japan’s robot detects which berries are at least 80 per cent red, and picks them gently off the vine. It’s ...

Close-up of strawberry picking. (University of Essex / Simon O’Connor via SWNS) A new, smaller version of an original robot prototype, which was trialled last year, is now being tested, with plans ...