MOUNT VERNON, WA - Cider - or "hard cider" as it is typically known in the United States - is experiencing a real revival. The fermented apple juice with 0.5% to 7% alcohol-by-volume is the fastest ...

Ni-Vanuatu RSE workers get to grips with a new-age way of picking apples using a fruit harvesting machine. Photo / Jared Morgan It is called the Tecnofruit CF-105 and the fruit-harvesting machine ...

KUCHING: Sarawak Plantation Bhd has developed its own innovative oil palm fruit harvesting machine to address the long-standing shortage of fruit harvesters faced by the industry and boost production ...

An Israeli entrepreneur says he will have a robotic apple picker ready to market at the end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019. Avi Kahani, CEO and co-founder of FFMH-Tech Ltd. in Emeq-Heffer, Israel, ...

The world's first automated mango picking robot has been used to harvest fruit in central Queensland. The three-metre-tall robot has nine arms which extend to gently pick the fruit, turning it ...

LAKELAND -- Little has changed over the past few hundred years in how oranges are picked. Human workers climb up a ladder, handpick the fruit into bags and later dump them into bins. All that could be ...

Researchers developed a robot hand that senses fruit ripeness through touch, allowing it to pick delicate crops without ...

His cranberry fields flooded with 6 inches of water, Dan Brockman drives his new harvesting machine — romantically named the ruby slipper — through the vines. Steel, finger-like rods submerged in the ...

MOUNT VERNON, WA - The hard cider industry is experiencing remarkable growth; statistics show that US hard cider production increased 22-fold from 2007-2015. To meet consumer demand for specialty ...

A study of a 'Brown Snout' cider apples compared total harvested fruit weight, labor hours, tree and fruit damage, and fruit and juice quality for machine harvest and hand harvest. Results showed the ...