MORGANTOWN, WV (WVNS) – A team of roboticists at West Virginia University have invented an innovative way to harvest fruit.

Researchers have developed a soft robotic gripper that can inspect fruit for ripeness and ...

In the wave of agricultural automation, fruit picking has long been a technical challenge. Traditional manual harvesting is inefficient and costly, while fully automated robots often struggle with ...

Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

WVU researcher Anand Mishra helped develop a soft, squishy robotic hand that gently inspects and harvests delicate fruits ...

In the agricultural sector, labor shortages are increasing the need for automated harvesting using robots. However, some fruits, like tomatoes, are tricky to harvest. Tomatoes typically bear fruit in ...

A new WVU-developed robotic gripper could help West Virginia strawberry growers reduce spoilage, improve fruit quality, and ...

A new tomato-picking robot is learning to think before it acts. Instead of simply identifying ripe fruit, it predicts how easy each tomato will be to harvest and adjusts its approach accordingly. This ...

When Brandon Contino and co-founder Dan Chi were developing Four Growers’ produce-harvesting robots, they practically lived in a greenhouse for an entire year. They coded at a small desk tucked in the ...

Sweet potato is a globally important food crop with rich nutritional value, widely used in food processing, feed production, and the pharmaceutical industry. Hainan Province in China has a history of ...