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To many city dwellers, the idea of apple picking might bring to mind a pleasant fall activity.

Abundant Robotics: New owner to revive apple-picking robot via equity crowdfunding

Last summer, Hayward-based Abundant Robotics abruptly closed up shop. Plenty of startups fail, a phenomenon that certainly applies in the notoriously difficult world of robotics. But the pandemic has proven a boon for robotics funding, particularly in fields like agriculture, where employees continue to have difficulty filling roles, two years in. Clearly Wavemaker Labs saw […]

I’ve been working on a big project the past several days (more on that soon), which means, unfortunately, I’ve been away from the daily breaking news. That means, in turn, that I really haven’t been on top of the big robotics news this week. So let’s use this column as an opportunity to play a […]

Courtesy of Future Acres HARVEST HELPER: The Carry is a compact electric robot that can pull picked crop from the row to staging areas for movement into processing. It’s from a startup called Future Acres that’s using crowdfunding to bring the product to market. Futures Acres takes a targeted approach to bring autonomy to the table grape business. A phone conversation with Suma Reddy is a super-charged conversation that covers key issues facing agriculture. In a matter of minutes a listener knows she’s putting serious energy into solving key problems in agricu...