Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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A March 2025 university report describes Miguel Torres’s team developing an adaptable mobile manipulator for tasks including delicate-fruit handling, with sensing and perception still being refined.
In July 2019, Cambridge reported field tests of a lettuce-harvesting prototype that identified suitable heads and controlled cutting and gripping, while openly acknowledging that human workers remained faster.
A February 2024 university report describes a solar-powered monitoring and control approach for avocado oil machinery, developed for settings where reliable grid electricity and labour-saving infrastructure are limited.
The European project combined soft gripping and machine vision in a harvesting prototype, with trials in Greece and Ireland revealing both successful picks and the impact of real facility constraints.
A Wageningen report on the European harvesting robot documented faster pepper picking while highlighting the continuing limits imposed by cycle time, foliage, clustered fruit and access within greenhouse rows.
PAL Robotics reported Italian vineyard trials of an adapted TIAGo++ upper body, exploring the perception, manipulation and human interaction required for collaborative grape harvesting and pruning research.
New Holland’s CR combine concept received Agritechnica’s 2023 gold innovation medal, while the official award material showed how pressure sensing, cameras and automated blockage management were entering harvesting workflows.
A newly published two-season experiment examines how thermostatically controlled root-zone temperatures affect cucumber growth and yield.
Measured plant models and synthetic vision data are helping researchers compare robot designs in a greenhouse environment that can be reset.
A field study compares three soft grippers and reports both reachable-fruit success and the lower success rate across the complete harvesting process.
Eurofins Agro and trinamiX added countries, energy estimates and alfalfa silage support to their portable near-infrared feed-analysis offering.
The November engineering conference will examine autonomous machines, sensors, interoperability and powertrains alongside practical machinery design.
