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  1. Mechanical Interaction Sensing for Robotic Kiwifruit Handling with an Optoelectronic Soft Suction Cup

    Nov 6, 2026Romina Adhami, Ebrahim Shahabi, Alessio Mondini +4Vision-Based Tactile SensingContact Force Estimation

    Bioinspired Soft Robotics Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy · Department of Cognitive Robotics, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · DIBRIS, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  2. An Ordering Optimization for Fruit-Vegetable in High-Density Environment based on Genetic Algorithm

    Nov 5, 2026Jaehwi Seol, Jeonghyeon Pak, Hyoung Il SonRobotic HarvestingRobotic Optimization

    Department of Convergence Biosystems Engineering, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea · Kimchi Factory Research Group, World Institute of Kimchi, Gwangju, 61755, Republic of Korea · Interdisciplinary Program in IT-Bio Convergence System, Chonnam National University, 77 Yongbong-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea +1

  3. Pedicel-Targeted Strawberry Harvesting via Imitation Learning on a Low-Cost Teleoperated Robotic Arm

    Oct 16, 2026Nitin Rai, Won Suk Lee, Hongyoung Leon +1Robotic HarvestingAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA. · United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Application Technology Research Unit, Wooster, OH 44691 USA.

  4. Sim-to-Real Reinforcement Learning for Path-Safe Target Reaching in Robotic Harvesting of Hydroponic Lettuce

    Oct 15, 2026Al Bashir, Partho Ghose, Yibin Wang +4Robotic HarvestingRL for Robotics

    Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA · Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX, 75252, USA · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA +1

  5. Force Sensor-Based Picking Pattern Analysis and Two-Jaw Gripper Design for Cherry Tomato Robotic Harvesting in Greenhouse

    Oct 13, 2026Rajmeet Singh, Manveen Kaur, Yusuf Adamu +1Robotic HarvestingRobotic Gripper Design

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Khalifa University Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE · Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Windsor, ON, Canada

  6. Towards a Unified Taxonomy of Agricultural Harvesting Technologies: Linking Physical Interaction, Automation, and Selectivity

    Oct 9, 2026Renato Cristiano Torres, Fabiano Mariath D Oliveira, Claudio Gottschalg DuqueRobotic HarvestingAgricultural Robotics

    Embrapa Agricultura Digital, Research Group on Scientific Computing, Information Engineering, and Automation, Campinas, Brazil · Embrapa, Information Technology Departament, Federal District, Brazill · University of Brasilia, Computational Linguistics, Federal District, Brazil

  7. Do Not Cut When Uncertain: Rejectable and Calibrated Decision Heads for VLA Policies in Robotic Harvesting

    Sep 28, 2026Heng ZhangRobotic HarvestingUncertainty Estimation for VLA Models

  8. Selective Cotton Boll Localization for Robotic Harvesting: Evaluation of Deep Learning Vision Models Under Field Conditions

    Sep 17, 2026Thevathayarajh Thayananthan, Xin Zhang, Isuru Laddusinghe Badu +6Robotic HarvestingInstance Segmentation

    School of Environmental, Civil, Agricultural and Mechanical Engineering, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA · Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Tifton, 31793, GA, USA · Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, GA, USA +1

  9. Active perception for robotic harvesting: 3D reconstruction and localisation of tomatoes hidden within clusters in a Mediterranean greenhouse

    Sep 16, 2026Fernando Cañadas-Aránega, Rowan Border, José C. Moreno +1Active PerceptionRobotic Harvesting

    Department of Informatics, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain · Vision for Robotics Lab (V4RL), University of Cyprus, allipoleos 75, Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus · Department of Engineering, CIESOL, ceiA3, Universidad de Almería, Ctra. Sacramento s/n, Almería, 04120, Spain

  10. CLASP: A Cluster-Level Autonomous Selective Picking Robot with a Soft Rolling-Band Gripper for Fresh-Market Blueberry Harvesting

    Sep 16, 2026Yixuan Xia, Yilin Cai, Natalia Belen Espinoza +4Robotic GraspingForce-Controlled Robotic Manipulation

    George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA · Department of Crop & Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA · Bio-Sensing, Automation, and Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA +3

  11. From Vision to Harvest: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Multi-Arm Robotic Fruit Harvesting

    Sep 11, 2026Vrishan Inukollu, Adyan Zaman, Anvi Kudaraya +4Robotic HarvestingRobotics

    University of California, Merced · University of California, Davis

  12. Agri-Sim: Agricultural Simulation Platform for Embodied Intelligence Evaluation in Greenhouse Robotics

    Aug 29, 2026Shuhan Shi, Zhenfeng Xue, Minghao Mei +3Robotic HarvestingRobotics Simulation

    School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China · Sino-European School of Technology of Shanghai University, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China · School of Future Technology (Institute of Artificial Intelligence), Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China

  13. Sensorless damage-safe grasping

    Aug 25, 2026Yusei Shuto, Danilo Vasconcellos VargasRobotic GraspingRobotic Harvesting

    Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  14. HarvestPoint-ACT: Explicit Target Selection and Harvest-Point Conditioning for Robotic Fruit Harvesting under Occlusion

    Aug 19, 2026Hanying Hu, Weipeng Li, Yikun Huang +4Robotic HarvestingRobotic Manipulation

    College of Computer and Information Sciences, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, China. · School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China. · Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan.

  15. Reinforcement Learning for the Full Strawberry Harvesting Process: Obstacle Separation, Detachment, and Placement

    Jul 16, 2026Changyou Miao, Teng Li, Ya XiongRL for RoboticsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China

  16. Vision-Based Obstacle Separation for Strawberry Harvesting in Clusters Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Teng Li, Hanfei Shi, Chunjiang Zhao +1Robotic GraspingHierarchical RL

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China. · Happy Elements Ltd., Beijing 100094, China.

  17. A Modular Dual-Arm Apple Harvesting Robot with Enhanced Field Performance

    Jun 12, 2026Keyi Zhu, Kyle Lammers, Chaaran Arunachalam +3Bimanual Robotic ManipulationAgricultural Robotics

    Department of Mechanical Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824, USA · United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

  18. Robotic Strawberry Harvesting with Robust Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning based Sim-to-Real Control

    May 22, 2026Al Bashir, Shao-Yang Chang, Partho Ghose +3RL for RoboticsInstance Segmentation

    Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei City, Taiwan · Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX 75252, USA

  19. DigiForest: Digital Analytics and Robotics for Sustainable Forestry

    Apr 16, 2026Marco Camurri, Enrico Tomelleri, Matías Mattamala +18Robotic HarvestingRobotics

    Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, University of Trento, via Sommarive 9, 38123 Trento (TN), Italy · Faculty of Engineering, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, via Bruno Buozzi 1, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (BZ), Italy · Faculty of Agricultural, Environmental and Food Sciences, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, piazza Universit`a 5, 39100 Bozen-Bolzano (BZ), Italy +9

  20. Learning What Can Be Picked: Active Reachability Estimation for Efficient Robotic Fruit Harvesting

    Mar 24, 2026Nur Afsa Syeda, Mohamed Elmahallawy, Luis Fernando de la Torre +1Agricultural RoboticsRobotic Harvesting

    Washington State University, Richland, WA 99354, USA

  21. Vision-guided Autonomous Dual-arm Extraction Robot for Bell Pepper Harvesting

    Mar 14, 2026Kshitij Madhav Bhat, Tom Gao, Abhishek Mathur +4Robotic HarvestingAgricultural Robotics

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

  22. SG-DOR: Learning Scene Graphs with Direction-Conditioned Occlusion Reasoning for Pepper Plants

    Mar 6, 2026Rohit Menon, Niklas Mueller-Goldingen, Sicong Pan +2Robotic HarvestingOcclusion Reasoning

    Humanoid Robots Lab, University of Bonn, Germany. · Lamarr Institute and the Center for Robotics, Bonn.

  23. HarvestFlex: Strawberry Harvesting via Vision-Language-Action Policy Adaptation in the Wild

    Mar 6, 2026Ziyang Zhao, Shuheng Wang, Zhonghua Miao +1Robotic HarvestingVisuomotor Policy Learning

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · The School of Mechanical Electrical Engineering and Automation, Shanghai University, Shanghai 20044, China.

  24. DINOv3 Visual Representations for Blueberry Perception Toward Robotic Harvesting

    Mar 2, 2026Rui-Feng Wang, Daniel Petti, Yue Chen +1Robotic HarvestingRobotic Perception

    Bio-Sensing, Automation, and Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA