Grasping, carrying and placing of objects are the fundamental capabilities and common
operations for robots and robotic manipulators. Grippers are the most essential components …

Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting have been actively developed over the past decades to
bridge the increasing gap between feeding a rapidly growing population and limited labour …

Digital farming is the practice of modern technologies such as sensors, robotics, and data
analysis for shifting from tedious operations to continuously automated processes. This …

Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

Although there is a rapid development of agricultural robotic technologies, a lack of access
to robust fruit recognition and precision picking capabilities has limited the commercial …

Litchi clusters in fruit groves are randomly scattered and occur irregularly, so it is difficult to
detect and locate the fruit-bearing branches of multiple litchi clusters at one time. This is a …

Phenotyping plants is an essential component of any effort to develop new crop varieties. As
plant breeders seek to increase crop productivity and produce more food for the future, the …

In this letter, we present a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest
sweet pepper in protected cropping environments. Our approach combines effective vision …

Using robots to harvest sweet peppers in protected cropping environments has remained
unsolved despite considerable effort by the research community over several decades. In …

To improve the operational efficiency of and to prevent possible collision damage in the near-
neighbor multi-target picking of sweet peppers by robots in densely planted complex …