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10-07 | Article

Lommers builds 20 asparagus harvesting robots for 2026 season

Tortuga AgTech’s autonomous strawberry harvesting robot, winner of the 2024 Future Farming Ag Robot of the Year Award, is now part of Oishii’s automation strategy for vertical farms. Photo: Tortuga.

04-04 | News

Oishii acquires Tortuga AgTech to scale robotic strawberry harvesting

Photo: TTA-ISO

19-02 | News

TTA-ISO introduces fully automated tomato harvesting robot

Photo: Mark Pasveer/Canva

02-01 | Article

2024 top 5: Most read articles on harvesting

Cambridge-based Autopickr is developing ‘Gus’, a robotic precision agriculture and harvesting platform. - Photo: Autopickr

09-05-2024 | News

UK based Autopickr introduces Gus, an asparagus harvester

The autonomous robot tractor Karl from Kuhn is a diesel-electric powered vehicle on tracks. - Photo: Kuhn

09-05-2024 | Article

How are field and harvest robots powered?

The researchers use a robotic arm with cameras for the AI trained system. Photo: UGA

02-05-2024 | News

American Researchers test robotic arm for sorting fresh onions

The onboard container can carry 150 to 200 kilograms of (partly compressed) cotton. - Photos: Afara

12-02-2024 | News

Afara robotic cotton picker salvages leftover cotton

The project is focused on increasing the performance and robustness of Fieldwork Robotics' raspberry harvesting robot Alpha. - Photo: Fieldwork

04-01-2024 | News

Fieldwork wins government grant to accelerate £1.1m BerryBot project

An interesting concept during the FIRA robot event at Toulouse was this SoftiRover from maker Softivert. When it is ready for production, this robot can appear in the Future Farming ag robot buying guide 2024. - Foto Geert Hekkert

12-09-2023 | News

Calling all ag field and harvest robot sellers for 2024

Picking fruit by Alpha. - Photo's: Fieldwork Robotics

11-08-2023 | News

EBC leads Seed Round into Raspberry picking Robot developer

An image of fruit size tracking for strawberries. - Photo's: Bitwise Agronomy

24-04-2023 | Article

Using a GoPro camera to create forecast information

The scientists in the program are talking frequently to strawberry-growers, including Australian fruit farm Burlington Berries, that is using 16 robotic harvesters of Dogtooth Technologies to pick strawberries. - Photo: Dogtooth Technologies

05-04-2023 | Article

Australian effort to deliver robot-ready strawberries

Are automatic outdoor strawberry harvesters really worth the investment?

28-03-2023 | Article

Are automatic outdoor strawberry harvesters really worth the investment?

Site Manager Eva Thilderkvist of Dogtooth Technologies: “At the moment only one in a hundred berries is not picked right. That is really good. And we are learning and improving the robots. They will be faster eventually.” - Photo: Dogtooth Technologies

17-03-2023 | Article

Strawberry-picking robots contribute to peace of mind for Tasmanian grower

HarvestEye provides insights on root crops during harvest as the crop is lifted. It fits to existing harvesting equipment and gives information on the performance of the whole field. - Photo: HarvestEye

08-02-2023 | News

HarvestEye 2.0 delivers faster crop measurement during harvest of root crops