Tech companies in Israel have designed fruit-picking drones and tree-pollinating "paddles" to make farms more efficient at a time of worker shortages and climate change. In Chile, flying robots ...

The gripper then turns the fruit by 90 degrees to snap it off its stalk, mimicking the technique a human picker would use. The prototype is picking one strawberry every four seconds, says Mr Coen ...

Now that we've got my pick for healthiest fruit out of the way, let's look at the runners-up. In fact, it's better for your health to eat a variety of fruits than it is to munch only on ...

Strawberry-picking robots have been called upon to tackle a labour crisis in the industry. The artificial allies could harvest and package the fruits "in a matter of seconds", according to the ...

Five years ago, when Renfu Lu’s research team tested its in-field sorting machine in Michigan apple orchards, they received ...

Mounting this on a mobile platform means it can harvest fruit, sort them into bins by size and deliver them to the pack house before driving back out to carry on picking. Kiwi-fruit are relatively ...