Smart agricultural harvesting robots' vision recognition, control decision, and mechanical
hand modules all resemble the human eye, brain, and hand, respectively. To enable …

Fruit firmness is of vital importance in various links of the fruit supply chain, such as
determining harvest time, choosing packaging and transportation methods, regulating …

A robotic apple harvester consisting of a mobile platform, a manipulator, an end-effector, a
stereo camera, and a host computer was constructed and evaluated using two picking …

Soft grasping is a great challenge for picking robots and its bionic inspiration originates from
human fingers. In this study, the hand was scanned to obtain the internal structure of fingers …

Operational efficiency is an important bottleneck in the industrialization of apple picking
robots. The action planning of grasping and picking is key to improving the operational …

For the purpose of minimizing the damage to apples during the operation of an apple-
picking robot, improving the stability of an apple-harvesting mechanical hand and reducing …

Oil palm industry still relies on manual harvesting, a physicality-reliant task that was found
related to the occurrence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among the harvesters …

The harvest phase plays an important role in the whole process of production of tomato fruit.
Therefore, it is necessary to ensure a technological process that will not damage biological …

Although global demand for palm oil has been increasing, most activities in the oil palm
plantations still rely heavily on manual labour, which includes fresh fruit bunch (FFB) …

Computer-aided automation systems for the detection of plant diseases represent a
challenging and highly impactful research domain in the field of agriculture. Tomatoes, a …