Mounting this on a mobile platform means it can harvest fruit, sort them into bins by size and deliver them to the pack house before driving back out to carry on picking. Kiwi-fruit are relatively ...

Tech companies in Israel have designed fruit-picking drones and tree-pollinating "paddles" to make farms more efficient at a time of worker shortages and climate change. In Chile, flying robots ...

New details have emerged suggesting Russian involvement in the flying of swarms of drones over military airbases in the region with agents suspected of posing as fruit pickers to plan the operation.

In the UK, for example, the Prince of Wales recently appealed for “an army” of people to help harvest fruit and vegetables in the country’s fields while its government launched a “Pick for ...