News & Calendar Agro Food Robotics

News

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  24 June 2021

  How to teach a robot to pick a fruit?

  - The availability of labour is one of the global issues in the agri-food sector today. And with the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in closed borders, the...
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  03 June 2021

  Automatic germination test provides insight into tomato seed quality

  - How many healthy tomato plants will a seed lot yield? Researchers from Agro Food Robotics at Wageningen University & Research (WUR) have developed...
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  14 May 2021

  Aerial monitoring for more biodiversity

  - How attractive is a particular grassland for meadow birds? And is biodiversity improving or declining? Researchers at Wageningen University &...
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  19 April 2021

  Intelligent robots increase the benefit from fresh produce

  - Around the world, grading, sorting and assembling of fresh fruits and vegetables is done predominantly manually. “It would save companies a lot...
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  10 March 2021

  New EU Project Robs4Crops Accelerates Shift towards Robotics

  - From farming controllers and smart implements to fully autonomous farming systems, Robs4Crops (a new project) is helping farmers fill labour shortages...
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  04 March 2021

  AgXeed, Faromatics and HONEY.AI winners Robot event

  - During the agROBOfood event “Pitch your Robot, Find your Investor” SMEs presented solutions they have developed for the agri-food sector...
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  18 February 2021

  Gripper searches for the right place to harvest gerbera

  - A harvesting robot consists of many components. For example, vision technology ensures that a product is recognized. But what happens next is just as...
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  16 December 2020

  WUR monitors expansion of digital tools in agriculture worldwide

  - The uptake of digital agricultural tools and services around the world will be tracked by researchers from Wageningen University & Research. WUR...
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  25 August 2020

  Plant calls the shots in pixel agriculture

  - An undulating field of golden wheat, almost luminescent under the setting sun. Within hours, the same field has become a barren wasteland. All of the...
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  07 July 2020

  AR glasses tell if gerbera can be harvested

  - Walk into a greenhouse and let your glasses tell all about the plant you are currently looking at. It is possible with the correct application of...