date:May 17, 2023
Researchers in Arkansas and Georgia have shown that delicate fresh-market blackberries typically picked by human hands to maintain quality, can now be picked by robots as well.
Renee Threlfall, food science research scientist with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, and three other authors have been researching robotic picking. They recently received the Outstanding Fruit Publication Award from the American