A low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University researchers may someday help with fruit picking and other farm chores. The inflatable arm can see an apple, then ...

The last decade has brought a lot of innovation into warehouse operations, targeted at making it faster, more efficient and less error-prone. While historically most warehouses have relied heavily on ...

Never mind the Apple Cup. Washington State University is focused on the apple grip and the apple pick. Researchers in WSU’s School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering unveiled a low-cost robotic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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