WENATCHEE – Worry over ag labor shortages could be a thing of the past if two engineering firms hit goals to market robotic fruit-picking machines by 2019. The two competing companies – Abundant ...

Harvesting the state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system could change dramatically as at least two ...

At least two companies are rushing to get robotic fruit-picking machines to market. SPOKANE, Wash. - Harvesting Washington state's vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and ...

WAPATO, Wash. — It was a tight squeeze in the 10-foot-wide rows. A few limbs ladened with Fuji apples were broken as the Bandit Xpress-DBR harvest assist platform navigated the Valicoff Fruit Co.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Harvesting Washington state’s vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farmworkers, and many of them work illegally in the United States. That system eventually could ...