Tomato vines can look calm from a distance. Up close, they feel like a crowded maze. Fruit hangs in clusters. Stems twist in ...

With an ever-increasing global population, the agricultural community can no longer rely on human-only cultivation and harvesting for the current and future demand for food. Machine harvesting has ...

Computer Science and Engineering student India Spott, a member of Sanfelice’s Hybrid Systems Lab, works on a robotic manipulator with a synthetic blueberry. The agricultural industry has long faced ...

Imagine a farm in 2050. It's summer and solar radiation and humidity are peaking. Fruit picking machines hum and cooling mist sprays overhead. In the haze, a robot stands among the rows of fruit. It ...