PULLMAN, Wash. — A cost-effective, robotic apple picker arm developed by researchers at Washington State University (WSU) could someday help with fruit picking and other farm chores, according to ...

Farming is undergoing a remarkable transformation thanks to cutting-edge technologies reshaping how fruit is picked and handled. While autonomous drones like Tevel’s Flying Robots are already ...

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 ...

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 ...

California-based start-up Advanced Farm Technologies has received a minority investment from CNH Industrial. Advanced Farm Technologies designs and builds robotic harvesters for apples, strawberries ...