Purpose – This study aims to propose a door detection method based on the door properties in both depth and gray-level images. It can further help blind people (or mobile robots) find the doorway to their destination. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed method uses the hierarchical...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a “Q&A interview” conducted by Joanne Pransky of Industrial Robot Journal as a method to impart the combined technological, business and personal experiences of a prominent robotic industry engineer-turned entrepreneur regarding the evolution,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of robots to contribute to producing food for the growing global population. Design/methodology/approach – Following an introduction which provides an historical background to agricultural production and strategies, this paper...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a robotic system to feed aquatic organisms and measure water physicochemical parameters in experimental aquaculture ponds. Design/methodology/approach – A dispatcher unit dispenses a precise amount of food and control panel software schedules...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a generic software framework for development of agricultural and forestry robots. The primary goal is to provide generic high‐level functionality and to encourage distributed and structured programming, thus leading to faster and simplified...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present work which is a part of the Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops project (CASC). Desired trajectory tracking objective has been previously performed by using a non‐model based approach in this project. Long distance autonomous drive...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose going one step further in the simulation tools related to agriculture by integrating fleets of mobile robots for the execution of precision agriculture techniques. The proposed new simulation environment allows the user to define different...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a new low‐cost system based on a spherical robot for performing moisture monitoring in precision agriculture. Design/methodology/approach – The work arose from the necessity of providing farmers with alternative methods for crop monitoring....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the realization of turn‐over‐wok movement for a cooking robot. Design/methodology/approach – First, the authors introduce the cooking robot's movement mechanism and its realization methods and then analyze the movement geometric of the...