According to Germany's University of Hohenheim, about 80 percent of the fruit trees in that country aren't regularly pruned – despite the fact that doing so makes them structurally stronger and ...

To solve this problem, the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) has developed an intelligent robot designed to handle the human-based tasks of thinning and pruning peach trees, which could ...

Karkee and Davidson are working on building hardware to attach to the robot, including cameras, sensors and pruning shears that connect to mechanical arms.

Over the years, we have been conditioned to believe pruning, while there are leaves on trees, is a capital offense. Consequently, it has probably never crossed the minds of most home orchardists ...

A sowing, pruning, and harvesting robot for SynecocultureTM farming Researchers develop a four-wheeled, two orthogonal axes mechanism robot to maintain plants grown under solar panels ...

How to Prune a Young Fig Tree Pruning young fig trees is essential for establishing their overall shape, especially if you're growing them in pots, says Sideman.