An automated strawberry-harvesting robot at Wish Farms in Plant City has shown progress toward full deployment for the upcoming strawberry season, its inventors say. Gary Wishnatzki, a ...

Large-scale strawberry harvests are tougher than they sound. The fruit is fragile and must be delicately plucked, usually by teams of laborers working slowly in the hot sun. If they’re bruised or the ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. — One of the biggest strawberry growers in the Tampa Bay region says it’s close to deploying a fully automated strawberry harvesting robot. Wish Farms has been helping to develop the ...

DUETTE, Fla. - Human and machine have 10 seconds per plant. They must find the ripe strawberries in the leaves, gently twist them off the stems and tuck them into a plastic clamshell. Repeat, repeat, ...

DAVIS, Calif. — Walk into any grocery store this summer, and chances are you will be greeted by rows of strawberries. Until recently, each of those berries would have been individually hand-picked by ...

Automated farming solutions are not a new thing, as more and more manufacturers look to robots for their agricultural needs. Yamaha joins the trend and takes its first step by investing in a robotic ...

PLANT CITY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Tampa Bay area strawberry farm owner hopes his technology can help keep strawberries in kitchens across America. “I fear without automation, we’re going to revert back to ...

Hands holding a pile of bright red strawberries with white colander of berries in the background - Verra Widhi/Shutterstock When it comes to growing strawberries, timing your harvest is the key to ...