The Office of Commercialization has awarded eight WSU researchers with the Commercialization Gap Fund (CGF). The CGF supports research projects with high market potential and provides researchers up to $50,000 to demonstrate their innovation(s) can m
The developers predict that in the next five to 10 years, robots will pick apples commercially. It may take much longer before machines harvest the majority of acreage for the nation’s top fruit commodity, with $3.2 billion in farm-gate revenue.
For the past three years, Terry Aberhart has watched the spindly, fixed-wing drones zip across the big skies over his farm in Canada’s Saskatchewan province, testing a technology that could be the future of weeding.