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This article presents PyLoGreen, an open-source hardware platform that enables continuous monitoring of air temperature, relative humidity, soil moisture, soil pH, and internal and external light levels inside greenhouses located in the High-Andean tundra of J…
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2026
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Introduction The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia is rapidly increasing worldwide, profoundly impacting older adults' quality of life and presenting significant challenges to healthcare systems. The heterogeneity of pathologies, the lack of…
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2026
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There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential for robotic pollination in response to these cha…
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2024
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Early warning of overgrowth in strawberry seedlings is essential to balance vegetative and reproductive growth. However, existing monitoring methods face major challenges, including subtle visual symptoms and limited abnormal samples. To address this, we propo…
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2025
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Chili pepper (Capsicum spp.) is a high-value industrial horticultural crop widely utilized in food processing, pharmaceuticals, and natural pigment production. Accurate monitoring of flowering is critical for yield formation, pollination management, and early-…
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2026
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Background The declining availability of natural pollinators and limitations of contact-based robotic pollination methods including flower damage, pathogen transmission, and reduced operational efficiency necessitate innovative solutions for protected horticul…
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2026
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The integration of AI into the workplace is advancing rapidly, necessitating robust metrics to evaluate its tangible impact on the labor market. Existing measures of AI occupational exposure focus primarily on the theoretical potential of AI to substitute or c…
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2026
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Robotic weed control is not yet widely adopted, despite its technological availability and proven economics and sustainability in crop cultivation by replacing seasonal labor and synthetic pesticides. This impedes technologically enabled changes toward more su…
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2024
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This work presents an open-source device for acquiring, correcting, and reconstructing the spectral power distribution (SPD) of LED sources used in controlled environmental agriculture. Unlike direct measurement spectrometers, the system employs a low-cost mul…
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2026
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Robust perception systems allow farm robots to recognize weeds and vegetation, enabling the selective application of fertilizers and herbicides to mitigate the environmental impact of traditional agricultural practices. Today's perception systems typically rel…
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2025
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3D phenotyping refers to the quantitative characterization of a plant's structural and morphological traits in three-dimensional space, allowing for a detailed analysis of plant architecture and growth patterns. In recent years, rapid advancements in non-destr…
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2026
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2024.1337380.].
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming humanitarian healthcare by providing innovative solutions to critical challenges in crisis response. This review explores peer-reviewed literature and case reports from 2001 to 2025, retrieved from PubMed, Scopus, a…
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2025
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Deep learning, as a pivotal branch of machine learning, has demonstrated remarkable potential in advancing crop science by effectively integrating genomics and phenomics. This review systematically outlines the application of diverse deep learning architecture…
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2026
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Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have driven robotics to the forefront of technological innovation, enhancing productivity and safety across industries. Autonomous navigation, especially in unstructured environments with irregular terrains and dyna…
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2026
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This study introduces a novel publicly available computer vision dataset specifically designed for weeding behavior analysis in tea plantations. Targeting the pressing challenges posed by weed infestations and aligning with global food security strategies, the…
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2025
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Haptic devices are becoming popular in many applications, including medical, gaming, and consumer devices. Yet, the majority of studies focus on the use of haptics for the upper limbs, with much less attention to the stimulation of other regions of the body su…
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2024
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Chemical control using pesticides remains an essential component of crop pest and disease management, while precision pesticide application is a core element for achieving sustainable agriculture. Precision spraying technology-integrating UAV-based detection, …
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2025
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Mechanized harvesting in the industrial tomato sector is currently bottlenecked by excessive mechanical injuries and elevated levels of foreign materials generated during electro-mechanical combine harvesting operations. To combat these limitations, this compr…
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2026
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Conventional plastics have profoundly influenced modern society by enabling durable consumer goods, protective packaging, medical devices, and countless industrial applications [...].
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2026
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Fragile fruit uploading and packaging are labor-intensive and time-consuming steps in postharvest industry. With the aging of the global population, it is supposed to develop robotic grasping systems to replace manual labor. However, damage-less grasping of fr…
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2024
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Automated defect detection in precision agriculture serves as a critical technology for enhancing the quality of agricultural products. Although supervised-only semantic segmentation has demonstrated remarkable performance in citrus surface defect detection, i…
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2026
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This study proposes a new control algorithm based on the optimization of the conservation of traction power and efficient use of energy, which is adaptable to changing the tillage conditions. The proposed control algorithm is called the Tillage and Energy Cont…
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2025
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Spodoptera frugiperda is a long-distance migratory pest with strong dispersal ability, fast reproduction speed and destructive feeding, so it is difficult to prevent and control. Pyrethroid insecticides are commonly used in pest insects control, And since the …
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2024
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This article presents a kinematic analysis of a 4-degree-of-freedom (DOF) robotic arm equipped with a 3-finger gripper, specifically designed for harvesting fruits of varying sizes. The kinematic modeling is thoroughly detailed, encompassing the equations of m…
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2024
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Designing an exoskeleton that can improve user capabilities is a challenging task, and most designs rely on experiments to achieve this goal. A different approach is to use simulation-based designs to determine optimal device parameters. Most of these simulati…
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2024
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Robotic grippers are widely utilized in industrial manufacturing, but object slippage during assembly poses challenges, including potential damage, delays, and increased costs. Therefore, early slip detection is crucial for efficient manufacturing operations. …
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2025
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Introduction Accurate fruit detection under low-visibility conditions such as fog, rain, and low illumination is crucial for intelligent orchard management and robotic harvesting. However, most existing detection models experience significant performance degra…
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2025
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Nondestructive online detection and sorting for fruit quality has gradually attracted attention in the global agro-product industry. However, the detection accuracy is influenced by many factors, such as fruit orientation, fruit shape, and environmental fluctu…
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2024
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Despite the growing relevance of Agriculture 4.0 technologies for enhancing productivity, decision-making, and sustainability in agri-food systems, their adoption remains uneven in developing-country contexts. This study aims to analyze the perceived severity …
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2026
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The world is changing at a pace, driven by global megatrends and their interactions. Megatrends, including climate change, the drive for sustainability, an aging population, urbanization, and geopolitical tensions, are producing an increasingly challenging env…
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2025
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In the past decade, there has been a recognized need for innovative methods to monitor and manage plant diseases, aiming to meet the precision demands of modern agriculture. Over the last 15 years, significant advances in the detection, monitoring, and managem…
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2024
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Choosing a course of study in a Senior High School in Ghana is a major problem for both students and parents, due to the limited number of Courses Offered. The courses are governed by the national education and curriculum framework. The educational policy guid…
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2025
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This study investigates the implementation of collaborative robots across three distinct industrial sectors: vehicle assembly, warehouse logistics, and agricultural operations. Through the SESTOSENSO project, an EU-funded initiative, we examined expert perspec…
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2024
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Global agricultural systems face unprecedented challenges from climate change, resource scarcity, and rising food demand, requiring transformative solutions. Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning (DL), has emerged as a critical tool for agri…
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2025
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In light of recent global crises, including climate change, species extinction, the COVID-19 pandemic, social upheavals and energy supply challenges, this Special Issue of Biomimetics , entitled "Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Biomimetic Design, C…
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2024
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To address the problems of the labeling curved surfaces vegetable with long label, such as the label wrinkled and the easy detachment, a cam-elliptical gear combined labeling mechanism with an improved hypocycloid trajectory is proposed. Provide the process of…
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2024
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The digitalization of agriculture is bringing about far-reaching socio-technical changes. This article analyzes these changes by looking at farming habits. Transactional theory of learning is introduced as an analytical perspective for investigating farmers' c…
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2026
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Flexible sensors have emerged as essential components in next-generation technologies such as wearable electronics, smart healthcare, soft robotics, and human-machine interfaces, owing to their outstanding mechanical flexibility and multifunctional sensing cap…
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2025
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Introduction Monitoring nitrogen nutrition indices is crucial for assessing current wheat growth conditions and guiding nitrogen fertilizer application. Methods To estimate the wheat nitrogen nutrition index (NNI) and explore the effects of planting density an…
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2025
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The global agricultural sector faces a significant number of challenges for a sustainable future, and one of the tools proposed to address these challenges is the use of automation in agriculture. In particular, robotic systems for agricultural tasks are being…
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2024
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The deployment of robots and sensors across diverse ecosystems supports ecological monitoring, nature conservation, and exploration. However, retrieving these machines is often impractical or economically infeasible, posing risks to ecosystems through pollutio…
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2026
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Recently, computer vision methods have been widely applied to agricultural tasks, such as robotic harvesting. In particular, fruit harvesting robots often rely on object detection or segmentation to identify and localize target fruits. During the model selecti…
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2024
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To address several challenges, including low efficiency, significant damage, and high costs, associated with the manual harvesting of Agaricus bisporus , in this study, a machine vision-based intelligent harvesting device was designed according to its agronomi…
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2025
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Polymeric hydrogels are an important class of soft materials composed of three-dimensional networks capable of retaining large amounts of water while maintaining structural integrity [...].
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2026
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It is worthwhile to calculate the execution cost of a manipulator for selecting a planning algorithm to generate trajectories, especially for an agricultural robot. Although there are various off-the-shelf trajectory planning methods, such as pursuing the shor…
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2024
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Flexible magnetic materials have great potential for biomedical and soft robotics applications, but they need to be mechanically robust. An extraordinary material from a mechanical point of view is spider silk. Recently, methods for producing artificial spider…
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2024
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Tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) is a globally cultivated horticultural crop, yet its productivity is severely constrained by foliar and insect-vectored diseases that reduce its quality and production. Early and accurate diagnosis of these diseases, along with …
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2025
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Modern systems, from vehicles to industrial testbenches, generate vast amounts of CAN bus data, yet researchers and developers lack affordable, open-source tools for its capture and analysis. While commercial tools are cost-prohibitive and existing open-source…
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2026
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Transforming agricultural landscapes to be more sustainable and resilient requires integrated and multidisciplinary approaches. Linking automated experimental platforms with living labs can accelerate knowledge gain, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, an…
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2025
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Nowadays, a very important impetus for the development of new functional materials is not only their performance but also whether they are environmentally friendly. It caused the development of bioplastics – bio-based and/or biodegradable alternatives to tradi…
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2024
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Vegetable sweet potato shoot tips are harvested repeatedly for fresh markets, but harvest timing and cut length are still determined largely by experience, limiting their translation into mechanized design parameters and control thresholds. We conducted a two-…
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2026
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To enhance the path tracking accuracy and dynamic adaptability of small unmanned harvesters in complex farmland environments, this paper proposes a simulation and autonomous driving algorithm framework based on TruckSim and Simulink. By innovatively integratin…
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2026
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With the increasing concerns over environmental pollution and healthcare demands, biodegradable materials are showing promising applications in the field of soft robotics. As two fundamental components of soft robots, actuators and soft sensors predominantly r…
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2026
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Background Artificial intelligence (AI) has catalyzed profound shifts in public health education, compelling institutions to explore innovative methods to prepare a digitally competent and resilient workforce. AI has emerged as a transformative tool, enabling …
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2026
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Accurately detecting the maturity and 3D position of flowering Chinese cabbage ( Brassica rapa var. chinensis) in natural environments is vital for autonomous robot harvesting in unstructured farms. The challenge lies in dense planting, small flower buds, simi…
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2024
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Light plays a crucial role in honey bee (Apis mellifera) behavior by influencing foraging, navigation, and locomotor activity (LMA). While the effects of light on LMA have been previously documented, the specific roles of different wavelengths have remained un…
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2026
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With the rapid growth of smart innovations, flexible electronics recognized for their lightweight, tremendous flexibility, and extraordinary scalability are growing more integrated into our daily life. Flexible electronics, known for their lightweight, high fl…
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2026
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When picking red pepper clusters, occlusion and overlapping fruit are major challenges hindering the development of intelligent red pepper cluster picking robots. To achieve accurate and efficient picking, we proposed a lightweight red pepper cluster recogniti…
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2026
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Climate change-induced heat stress severely impedes potato ( Solanum tuberosum ) germination, threatening global food security. Here, we report the application of green-synthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs), fabricated using Azadirachta indica (neem) leaf e…
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2025
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This study introduces a small apple pre-thinning dataset designed to support the development of intelligent thinning systems by providing reliable data for small apple detection. The dataset comprises 2,517 RGB images (original size 3024×3024 pixels, uniformly…
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2025
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Insects feeding on xylem sap, such as adult Aphrophoridae spittlebugs, are vectors of the plant pathogenic xylem-limited bacterium Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) , a causal agent of a number of severe diseases, including the Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS), which…
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2026
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Traditional methods of biodiversity monitoring are often logistically challenging, time-consuming, require experienced experts on species identification, and sometimes include destruction of the targeted specimens. Here, we investigated a non-invasive approach…
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2025
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Forest fires in Turkey have received comparatively limited scholarly attention despite the country's high seasonal susceptibility, particularly during summer due to adverse climatic conditions. For real-time detection and risk assessment, this research suggest…
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2026
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The accurate depth imaging of piled products provides essential perception for the automated selection of individual objects that require itemized food processing, such as fish, crabs, or fruit. Traditional depth imaging techniques, such as Time-of-Flight and …
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2024
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The edible insect industry is inherently multidisciplinary. The increasing interest in edible insect production for food and feed has driven an increasing number of research outputs covering biology, engineering, economics, and more. However, research spanning…
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2026
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It is extremely challenging to classify steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) in scenarios characterized by a huge scarcity of calibration data where only one calibration trial is available for each stimulus target. To address this challenge, we intro…
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2024
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Correlated data, including time series where observations depend on previous values, frequently occur in various livestock production studies. There are many statistical models and machine learning algorithms that have been developed to analyze this type of da…
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2026
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Reducing damage and missed harvest rates is essential for improving efficiency in unmanned cabbage harvesting. Accurate real-time segmentation of cabbage heads can significantly alleviate these issues and enhance overall harvesting performance. However, the co…
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2024
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Dryland agriculture in the Inland Pacific Northwest is challenged in part by rising input costs for seed, fertilizer, and agrichemicals; threats to water quality and soil health, including soil erosion, organic matter decline, acidification, compaction, and nu…
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2024
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Understanding the biology and ecology of parasitoids can have direct implications for their evaluation as biological control agents, as well as for the development and implementation of mass-rearing techniques. Nonetheless, our current knowledge of the possibl…
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2024
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Wheat ( Triticum aestivum ) is a major cereal crop planted in the Southern Great Plains. This crop faces diverse pests that can affect their development and reduce yield productivity. For example, aphids are a significant pest in wheat, and their management re…
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2024
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With the current demand for automation in the agro-food industry, accurately detecting and localizing relevant objects in 3D is essential for successful robotic operations. However, this is a challenge due the presence of occlusions. Multi-view perception appr…
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2024
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There is an urgent need to transform our current food system to improve population health/wellbeing and planetary health. A number of challenges exist in order to achieve this. Artists, with their innate ability to use imagination to envision future needs and …
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2025
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Accurate grape detection in orchards is a core link in realizing automated harvesting. To address the challenges in orchard environments, such as complex grape backgrounds, variable lighting conditions, and dense occlusion of fruits, this study proposes a high…
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2025
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This study investigated potential regional disparities in the mortality of individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in Brazil. A nationwide ecological study was conducted investigating the spatial distribution of sex- and age-adjusted mortality rates of indiv…
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2026
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The accidental contamination of olives by mineral hydrocarbons, such as diesel, motor lubricants, and hydraulic fluids from agricultural machinery, has become a growing concern in the olive oil industry. In response, European regulatory bodies are working on e…
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2026
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With the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in complicated imaging and remote sensing technologies, plant research is transitioning from manual measurements to automated data collecting. High-throughput image-based phenotyping enables the precise and …
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2025
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Biotrickling filter (BTF) is often used for purification of waste gas from swine houses, with vital information still needed regarding interaction effects among multiple gas pollutants removal and also the formation of byproducts especially nitrous oxide (N 2 …
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2024
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The increasing demand for soft robotic systems in agricultural, biomedical and other applications has driven the development of actuators that can mimic the flexibility and adaptability of human muscles. Several studies have explored the design and implementat…
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2025
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A good ecological environment represents the most inclusive form of people's well-being, and it is also the greatest advantage and precious asset in rural areas. Therefore, it is of great significance to accelerate the green development of agriculture. Against…
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2025
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Soil compaction caused by heavy agricultural machinery poses a significant challenge to sustainable farming by degrading soil health, reducing crop productivity, and disrupting environmental dynamics. Field traffic optimization can help abate compaction, yet c…
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2025
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The growing demand for innovative research in the food industry is driving the adoption of robots in large-scale experimentation, a shift that offers increased precision, repeatability, and efficiency in product manufacturing and evaluation. This paper address…
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2025
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Purpose This study aims to address the limitations of traditional data processing methods in predicting agricultural product prices, which is essential for advancing rural informatization to enhance agricultural efficiency and support rural economic growth. Me…
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2024
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To address the growing demand for sustainable agriculture practices, new technologies to boost crop productivity and soil health must be developed. In this research, we propose designing and building an agricultural rover capable of autonomous vegetable harves…
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2024
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In response to the need for non-destructive sorting and grasping of fruits and vegetables with diverse sizes and shapes, this study presents a novel design for an agricultural manipulator grasping system (MGS). The system includes a variable-structure soft man…
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2025
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In recent years, the demand for efficient automation across various sectors has accelerated significantly [...].
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Introduction For millennia, medicinal plants have been a cornerstone of human healthcare, providing a rich source of bioactive compounds used in both traditional and modern medicine. A diverse array of therapeutic molecules is offered by these plants, from the…
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2025
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In the recent years, with the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) traditional methods have seen a significant transformation in the agriculture sector, especially in soil management. Soil management involves practices that maintains and improves the physica…
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2024
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Soluble solid content (SSC) is a key indicator for evaluating cucumber quality, directly influencing its commercial value. In China's cucumber sorting factories, SSC is typically assessed using random sampling and destructive methods, which are unsuitable for …
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2025
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Grasspea is a nutrient-rich food legume crop known for its resilience in the challenging agro-ecosystems. However, information is scanty regarding the recommendation of grasspea genotypes with respect to their suitability for both general and specific adaptati…
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2025
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Introduction The world's population has been increasing continuously, and this requires prompt action to ensure food security. One of the top five cereals produced worldwide, sorghum, is a staple of the diets of many developing nations. For this reason,getting…
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2025
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In the context of intensifying global competitiveness and rapid technological advancement, industrial robots have emerged as a pivotal component in the integration of digital technology, exerting a vital influence on the transformation and enhancement of the m…
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2025
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Object detection, specifically fruitlet detection, is a crucial image processing technique in agricultural automation, enabling the accurate identification of fruitlets on orchard trees within images. It is vital for early fruit load management and overall cro…
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2024
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Cellulose, the dominant natural polymer on Earth, features a distinct molecular structure with extraordinary mechanical properties and tunable characteristics, making it attractive for gel systems. Although significant progress has been made, challenges remain…
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2026
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The extensive use of chemical pesticides has significantly boosted agricultural food crop yields. Nevertheless, their excessive and unregulated application has resulted in food contamination and pollution in environmental, aquatic, and agricultural ecosystems.…
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2024
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Wearable Technologies (WT) have rapidly evolved over the past decade. AM offers highly customisable fabrication, while WT enables minimally invasive health monitoring. The intersection of these fields presents emerging opportuni…
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2026
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Early-stage frost damage in citrus fruits is difficult to detect because external symptoms are often weak or absent, hindering intelligent robotic sorting in postharvest scenarios. To address this challenge, this study proposes a robotic multimodal tactile sen…
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2026
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Agricultural tasks and environments range from harsh field conditions with semi-structured produce or animals, through to post-processing tasks in food-processing environments. From farm to fork, the development and application of soft robotics offers a pletho…
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2024
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