The five-acre apple orchard has more than 1200 apple trees. The owners of Sycamore Spring Orchard & Farm Market are retiring, ...

Researchers are developing robots that promise to automate a process that has always relied on human workers—and bees.

TK Family Farm in Polk County, NC, has found success using precision and high-density growing techniques at its orchard that ...

Apple orchards are largely untouched by automation. But that could be changing. Recent breakthroughs in robotics and artificial intelligence could enable robots to do much of the work that ...