Root AI's Virgo robot is designed to pick tomatoes. It has a camera and artificial intelligence software that analyzes whether the tomato is ripe, and an arm with delicate "fingers" that swings out ...

Researchers at Cornell University designed a flexible optic waveguide that serves as a force and strain sensor in a soft robotic hand. The hand can quickly and accurately detect textures, alter its ...

The left image shows the tomato-picking robot and camera. The right image shows a ‘robot-eye view’ of the tomatoes. Red represents mature fruits, green indicates immature fruits, and blue indicates ...

Tomatoes are an important vegetable crop worldwide, but their picking operations have long relied on manual labor, facing problems such as high labor intensity, high costs, and easy fruit damage. In ...