Freshippo has opened its biggest supply chain center in Shanghai
Ocado launches first robotic warehouse in Asia with Aeon British online supermarket and technology group Ocado said its first robotic warehouse in Asia, built for Japanese partner Aeon, has gone

Coop: mdd values in fruit and vegetables in a commercial
Coop values translated into a commercial to emphasise the retailer's fruit and vegetables and private label products. I'm not a robot has been on air since 3 July and summarises in thirty seconds

ChatGpt goes robot, here's the one picking tomatoes
It had to happen sooner or later. ChatGpt, the artificial intelligence much talked about in our social feeds and TV lounges, has given birth to its first robot, and not by chance it is an arm

Chat GPT creates robot gripper for harvesting tomatoes
Poems, essays, and even books – is there anything the open AI platform ChatGPT can't handle? These new AI developments have inspired researchers at TU Delft and the Swiss technical university

GRoW Harvesting Robot picking tomatoes at Axia Vegetable Seeds
The GRoW Harvesting Robot, a collaborative effort by Ridder and MetoMotion, is picking XR ToBRFV-resistant tomatoes in Axia Vegetable Seeds' demo greenhouses in the Netherlands. This demonstration

MAF RODA launches the Fast Pack Peach robot on the market
The business group has spent years innovating and developing robotics systems to automate packaging tasks in fruit and vegetable warehouses. Robotics is one of the group's six main lines of

New automatic packing robot for peaches and nectarines
The MAF RODA Group has been innovating and developing robotics systems for years to automate the tasks of fruit and vegetable processing plants. “Robotics is one of the group's six major lines

Global Tomato Congress: ToBRFV - already a lot done, but still a lot to do
Rotterdam was all about tomatoes on 16 May as Fruitnet hosted the Global Tomato Congress at the World Trade Center. The presentations were as colourful as the assortment: from crisis management to

Photo report: Interpack 2023
From May 4 to 10, visitors to Germany's Düsseldorf exhibition center could see the latest gadgets in packaging technology and machines. Numerous applications for fresh food to non-food were

The future is now for Syngenta
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds has revealed that it recently worked with Pittsburgh-based Four Growers Inc to test the GR-100 robotic harvester in its tomato research. The aim, according to Syngenta, is

New robot uses vacuum system to harvest tomatoes
The future of food production will require greater efficiencies, sustainable practices, and maximizing yields at every step. To optimize the future production of tomatoes, Syngenta Vegetable Seeds

Cutting robot increases yields
"We’re well-positioned regarding what the market needs: robotizing the cutting process," begins Jeroen Pannekoek, PIP Innovations' Managing Director. This Dutch company focuses on robotized

Preliminary results show that Ekobot can contribute to reduced storage losses in Swedish onion cultivation
The Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy has stated: "Ekobot can contribute to reduced storage losses in Swedish onion cultivation according to preliminary results from Hushållningssällskapet

UK’s Muddy Machines to offer robotic harvesting as a service
Muddy Machines is a UK-based robotics company. It has developed a team of five robotic harvesters called "Sprout" that will work together to pick British asparagus commercially in Herefordshire

‘Sprouts’ set to harvest spears
A ‘herd’ of robots is to be released into the English countryside to commercially pick British asparagus for the first time this coming season. Muddy Machines – the robotics company behind

Robotization and automation are a must for the agricultural sector given labor shortage
At the beginning of February, the largest exhibition of the fruit and vegetable industryFruit Logistica was held in Berlin. Experts from all over the world have gathered there to see numerous

VSGP: Reduction of plant protection products in vegetable production through robot technology
As part of an AgriQnet project, a broad-based project partnership has built a prototype plant protection robot (PS robot) with spotspraying technology and conducted numerous trials over the past

Syngenta Vegetable Seeds innovations at Fruit Logistica
Syngenta Vegetable Seeds will be exhibiting at Fruit Logistica where it will showcase some of the industry's latest amazing innovations (Hall 1.2 stand C-50), including Ideal melons, among the 10