date:Aug 30, 2013
With a bumper crop of apples expected this season, many Washington tree fruit growers dream of a day when automated technology helps bring in the harvest. Manoj Karkee, assistant professor with the Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems at Washington State University, believes that day will soon be here.
Karkee and his team of WSU scientists recently won a $548,000 US Department of Agriculture grant to develop tree fruit harvesting technology where robots and humans work sid