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šŸ“„ Study on how robotization of tomato production could enhance food security

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-28 Thu 10:00
2021-Jan-28 Thu 10:00
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The world is facing food insecurity problem due to shortage of workforce and growing world population. Robotization of crop production will help to boost food production, through effective labour conservation. This study was carried out to optimize the performance of tomato fruits' robotic harvesters,ā€¦

Automated refrigerated container monitoring results in fewer claims

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-26 Tue 17:15
2021-Jan-26 Tue 17:15
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In most ports, terminal automation primarily focuses on container handling while the monitoring of individual containers is done manually. Monitoring is key in keeping the temperature of perishables at the right levels, but it is a very labor-intensive job as the temperature setting and monitoring areā€¦

Supply Chain Visibility and Transparency a Key Element of Change inĀ 2021

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-22 Fri 10:00
2021-Jan-22 Fri 10:00
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It is safe to say that 2020 was a year unlike any other. The COVID-19 pandemic brought on significant changes to everyday life across the world. It also brought some significant challenges to businesses from retail, to restaurants and manufacturing. The supply chain industry faced a challenge like no other when shutdowns began and manufacturers were left scrambling to come up with a backup plan. Although these challenges were tough to handle, it gave the industry a much-needed eye opening to make the changes needed in order to avoid this from happening again.

šŸ“„ Design and simulation of a control for the opening and closing of the side ventilation

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-22 Fri 08:45
2021-Jan-22 Fri 08:45
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An optimal control for the opening and closing of the side ventilation windows of a greenhouse can be obtained from a mathematical model of the crop and the greenhouse. In the greenhouse model, control input is the ventilation, and to carry out the instrumentation in the immediate future, this term weā€¦

Robotics, AI and the future of food: ā€˜The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis that robots were built to addressā€™

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-21 Thu 11:15
2021-Jan-21 Thu 11:15
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COVID-19 has accelerated interest in the role that automation, robotics and data can play in food and agricultural production. We speak to industry leaders to learn about the latest developments.

This Self-Watering Indoor Garden Makes It Easier Than Ever to Grow Fruits and Veggies

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-19 Tue 10:53
2021-Jan-19 Tue 10:53
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Thanks to living through a global pandemic, many of us have significantly reduced our visits to stores and supermarkets. When it comes to fresh produce, delivery services are often disappointing, as they often mix up orders or simply donā€™t have what we need when we need it. Rather than go without, thereā€™s a better option for getting immune boosting fresh fruits and vegetables without ever leaving the safety of your own home: the Lettuce Grow Farmstand indoor garden. Under the premise healthy food for everyone, Lettuce Grow simplifies urban gardening so that anyone can harvest their own fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs from the comfort of home.

Drones capable of watering cabbages without human intervention

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-18 Mon 09:11
2021-Jan-18 Mon 09:11
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still developing rules on the use of drones, but individual companies are gradually getting some kind of license.  Now, the FAA for the first time approved fully automatic drone flights for commercial purposes. The permit was issued to a small Massachusetts company,ā€¦

"With this pepper de-coring machine we are focusing on the higher middle segment"

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-18 Mon 09:11
2021-Jan-18 Mon 09:11
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The idea for a new machine often comes from a manufacturer looking for a solution or from a machine manufacturer who sees a gap in the market for a new application. This time, however, it was the distributor who came up with an idea and worked it out into a concrete machine together with theā€¦

šŸ“ŗ Automatic slicer cuts apples into perfect wedges

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-13 Wed 13:19
2021-Jan-13 Wed 13:19
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Murre Technologies, a Dutch company that supplies food-processing equipment around the globe, has developed industrial machines that automate cutting, peeling, dipping and sorting fruits, vegetables, seaweed and seafood. For example, there is the installation that cuts and core fresh apples into perfectā€¦

US: First deployment of self-driving greenhouse tow-tractors

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-06 Wed 08:45
2021-Jan-06 Wed 08:45
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Cyberworks Robotics announces the initial sale of 18 autonomous (self-driving) tow-tractors to Fernlea greenhouse. This represents the first deployment of autonomous tractors in an industrial greenhouse anywhere in the world. The order represents the first batch of up to 90 autonomous tractors expectedā€¦

šŸ“ŗ New production line helps to reduce plastic waste

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-06 Wed 08:45
2021-Jan-06 Wed 08:45
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Dutch tomato specialist RedStar has succeeded in further reducing the amount of used plastic for packaging in the supermarket. By expanding a special production line, even more tomatoes can be packed in thin plastic trays instead of the thicker buckets. As a result, 40% less plastic is used. For theā€¦

Enhancing automation in controlled environment agriculture farming

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-05 Tue 11:15
2021-Jan-05 Tue 11:15
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The Canadian organisation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada AAFC is launching a challenge to enhance automation in the production and harvesting operations of CEA facilities. Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) is an indoor technology-based production system where crops are grown under a modified andā€¦

šŸ“ŗ Standardized turn-key lettuce greenhouses make entering greenhouse industry easier

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2021-Jan-04 Mon 13:30
2021-Jan-04 Mon 13:30
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Havecon has been known as a turnkey greenhouse supplier for many years now, but as of now they'll take turnkey to a new level under the name of ā€œHavelettuce Projectsā€. Havelettuce will not only take on the build of a greenhouse but the complete project realization, offering a plug and play concept forā€¦

"We are happy that our machines could help providing front-line workers with safely packaged supplies"

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-24 Thu 11:15
2020-Dec-24 Thu 11:15
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ā€œThis year hasnā€™t been great but considering the circumstances, we were quite luckyā€, says Rick Briston, business development manager for UK-based machinery manufacturer Redpack. A common sentiment at the end of this year. The COVID-pandemic has brought a number of challenges for the fruit and vegetableā€¦

Investors to support developers bringing leaf cutting robot to the market

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-18 Fri 11:15
2020-Dec-18 Fri 11:15
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SAIA Agrobotics, a tech spin-off from Wageningen University & Research, will further develop its technology for greenhouse robotics with investments from the Technology Transfer funds of Innovation Industries, SHIFT Invest and the ION+ fund managed by Oost NL. SAIA Agrobotics develops robots that canā€¦

Argos smart scanning system for trolleys

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-17 Thu 14:45
2020-Dec-17 Thu 14:45
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Professional growers nowadays are supplying a large variety of plant species to their clients. A very labor-intensive process and in addition to the extensive audit work, itā€™s also a very error-prone process leading young plant propagators to expensive and often compromised solutions. Thatā€™s why TTAā€¦

Technology beats humans at growing strawberries in greenhouses

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-16 Wed 16:00
2020-Dec-16 Wed 16:00
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Technology beat farmers at growing strawberries in the inaugural Smart Agriculture Competition organized by Pinduoduo, Chinaā€™s largest agri-focused technology platform, underscoring its potential to raise agricultural productivity and increase food security. The four technology teams, which employed dataā€¦

"Same mission, upgraded platform, shaped by lessons learned"

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-16 Wed 16:00
2020-Dec-16 Wed 16:00
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Available in January 2021, ecoationā€™s next generation of the OKO platform (OKO Tantalus) offers several upgrades including the world-first 8K 360-degree virtual walk with live broadcasting software and cart-independent hardware that allows the platform to be easily installed on existing fleets. Theseā€¦

Walmart will use fully driverless trucks to make deliveries in 2021

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-15 Tue 13:30
2020-Dec-15 Tue 13:30
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Walmart will use fully autonomous box trucks to make deliveries in Arkansas starting in 2021. The big-box retailer has been working with a startup called Gatik on a delivery pilot for 18 months. Next year, the two companies plan on taking their partnership to the next level by removing the safety driver from their autonomous box trucks.

Gatik, which is based in Palo Alto and Toronto, outfitted several multitemperature box trucks with sensors and software to enable autonomous driving. Since last year, those trucks have been operating on a two-mile route between a ā€œdark storeā€ (a store that stocks items for fulfillment but isnā€™t open to the public) and a nearby Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Arkansas. Since then, the vehicles have...

šŸ“ŗ HSE 300: New automatic solution for spraying in a greenhouse

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-11 Fri 11:15
2020-Dec-11 Fri 11:15
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HSE 300 is the latest solution for spraying in a greenhouse. The machine has two spraying bars up to 3m high, one spraying the end of the row, the other spraying the plants on both sides. Both are equipped with nozzle heads that can be adjusted and individual setting of the spray liquid stream. "Theā€¦

"With this bell pepper de-coring machine, we're focusing on the high-middle segment"

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-08 Tue 13:30
2020-Dec-08 Tue 13:30
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Producers seeking solutions, often come up with ideas for new machines. Or, it's machine manufacturers who see a gap in the market. This time, however, it was a distributor who came up with an idea. They developed it into a working machine along with the manufacturer. The result? A bell pepper de-coringā€¦

Ford's autonomous cars are delivering fresh produce in Miami

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-08 Tue 03:43
2020-Dec-08 Tue 03:43
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Fordā€™s long-running Miami self-driving car tests might just prove vital during the pandemic. The automaker, Argo AI and The Education Fund are running an eight-week pilot program that uses autonomous Fusion Hybrid cars to deliver fresh produce to Mia...

Efficient processing for maximum freshness

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-02 Wed 13:25
2020-Dec-02 Wed 13:25
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Since 2016, Lisa Zapf, managing director of Zalat-o-mat LLC from the Palatinate, has been operating a steadily growing number of vending machines, called Zalat-o-mats, in which fresh regional products -particularly vegetables and salads from her own farm- are sold. The increasing production volumes nowā€¦

India: Machine-based smart farming helps tomato grower

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Dec-02 Wed 13:22
2020-Dec-02 Wed 13:22
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A motion precision equipment and automation solution provider,  wanted to build an advanced, vison-based, smart farming solution to analyze the growth of plantations inside a greenhouse. After evaluating the available market options, the client selected LTTS (L&T Technology Services Limited) for this project.ā€¦

ā€œBlanching fruits and vegetables is better for aesthetic, hygiene and convenienceā€

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-30 Mon 11:15
2020-Nov-30 Mon 11:15
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Demand for processed fruits and vegetables has gone up in the last few months. Consumers have been stocking up on non-perishables in case of a lockdown or quarantine. Hospitality-closures and working from home have increased home-cooking  which increased the need for fresh-cut or prepared meals. ā€œThere areā€¦

New high-speed, pressure sensitive M2 label applicator introduced

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-25 Wed 11:19
2020-Nov-25 Wed 11:19
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ID Technology, a ProMach product brand, introduced their new M2 label applicator. This label head applies pressure sensitive labels to clamshells, tubs, boxes, trays, bottles, and pallets as well as other packages. Featuring a new onboard controls module with ProMachā€™s Titanium motion controller, as wellā€¦

šŸ“„ World-first investigation raises ethical and policy challenges in using robots in agriculture

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-23 Mon 15:24
2020-Nov-23 Mon 15:24
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With automation poised to transform agriculture in Australia in the coming years, Monash University researchers have published the first-ever analysis of the ethical and policy issues raised by the use of robots in agriculture. Agriculture employs around 2.5 per cent of the countryā€™s workforce and is aā€¦

šŸ“ŗ Solutions that optimize the fruit and vegetable packaging process

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-20 Fri 08:34
2020-Nov-20 Fri 08:34
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The year 2020 has been a difficult one dominated by the pandemic. Even with increasing work volumes and fewer staff available, TopControl technology provided its hardware and software solutions to guarantee fresh products. A video of the machine while it is operating The most challenging aspect in theseā€¦

State-of-the-art robotic welding line

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-16 Mon 08:39
2020-Nov-16 Mon 08:39
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"This is a peculiar year - the pandemic has made everything new and uncertain. One of few sectors unaffected by the crisis is the agricultural and food sector, especially when it comes to large retail chains and producers. Most of our clients belong to this category and, luckily, they are going throughā€¦

Picking robots address agricultural labor shortages

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Submitted by Elsewhere on 2020-Nov-12 Thu 13:16
2020-Nov-12 Thu 13:16
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Around the world, growers have always found innovative ways to work smarter. Although processes and inputs can be stretch to the limit to maximize profits, human labor cannot, and it is becoming a devastating problem. The increasing worker shortage continues to make it difficult for farmers to get theā€¦