Apple growers facing tight labor costs may soon have a new tool in the orchard: a harvesting robot that not only picks the ...

A low-cost, simple robotic arm developed by Washington State University researchers might someday help with fruit picking and ...

Although the robotic arm is still slow when compared to human pickers who pick an apple every three seconds, the team is ...

Scientists have invested an inflatable apple-picking robot that uses similar technology as the inflatable "tube guy" ...

A low-cost, simple robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University researchers may someday help with fruit picking and other farm chores.

In the orchards of Central Washington, a new kind of technology is revolutionizing the fruit tree industry. One of the robots being tested is 14 feet tall and has six mechanical arms with suction cups ...

Apple orchards are largely untouched by automation. But that could be changing. Recent breakthroughs in robotics and ...

A cost-effective, robotic apple picker arm developed by Washington State University (WSU) researchers may someday help with ...

To build a “hand” for a robot apple picker, Joe Davidson first had to learn how to pick apples. After all, he was an engineer, not a farmer. “Picking apples seems like a very simple thing to do,” ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Harvesting Washington state's vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could ...