When assessing the ripeness of fruit, sight and smell can tell you a lot, but the best indicator is often how the fruit feels. Cornell researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft ...
A fruit-hauling robot developed by Washington State University graduate students and Heritage University undergraduates won a $5,000 prize at a recent competition judged by academics and agricultural ...
In the wave of agricultural automation, fruit picking has long been a technical challenge. Traditional manual harvesting is inefficient and costly, while fully automated robots often struggle with ...
Researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk—precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful ...
Researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then gently twist them off their branch or vine without causing ...