Tomato greenhouses are becoming test beds for a new kind of farm worker, one that does not just grab every red fruit in sight ...

the use of robots is attracting attention, Assistant Professor Takuya Fujinaga of the Graduate School of Engineering at Osaka Public University has developed a model to predict the success rate of ...

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 ...

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