PLANT CITY, Fla. — One of the biggest strawberry growers in the Tampa Bay region says it’s close to deploying a fully automated strawberry harvesting robot. Wish Farms has been helping to develop the ...

The success of the TX Robotic Strawberry Harvester has helped its creator, Advanced Farm Technologies, secure funding to develop an automatic apple picker. (courtesy of Advanced Farm Technologies) A ...

DAVIS, Calif. — Walk into any grocery store this summer, and chances are you will be greeted by rows of strawberries. Until recently, each of those berries would have been individually hand-picked by ...

DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, ...