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Hybrid Robotic Gripper Paper Accepted by ICRA 2026
We are delighted to announce the acceptance of a paper to IEEE ICRA 2026, marking a remarkable achievement led by Xi Chen, an undergraduate intern from China Agricultural University. Co-first authored with Master’s student Yun Wang, their work on the “Hybrid Rigid-Soft Robotic Gripper with Shape Adaptation, Uniform Force Distribution, and Self-Locking Capabilities” will be presented in Vienna.
Feb 2, 2026 1 min read
Lightweight Detector for Greenhouse Tomatoes Presented in New Paper
A paper led by master student Nengwei Yang, titled “PHDT-DETR: A Lightweight End-to-End Detector for On-Device Truss Tomato Detection in Greenhouses,” has been published in Smart Agricultural Technology. The study proposes the PHDT-DETR, a streamlined detection model that maintains accuracy while being efficient enough to run in real-time on embedded devices within greenhouses, facilitating scalable robotic scouting and harvesting.
Dec 22, 2025 1 min read
New Multi-view Vision System Paper Accepted for Robust Strawberry Picking
A paper led by PhD student Shimin Hu, titled “Calibration-enhanced multi-view RGB-D vision for robust recognition and 3D localization of strawberries under occlusions,” has been accepted by Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
Nov 10, 2025 1 min read
Research on Light-Resilient Ripeness Detection for Strawberries Published
A paper led by PhD student Meili Sun, titled “Light-resilient visual regression of strawberry ripeness for robotic harvesting,” has been accepted for publication in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. The research introduces a robust visual regression model that maintains high accuracy in judging strawberry ripeness under varying greenhouse light conditions.
Oct 28, 2025 1 min read
S-H Robotics Lab Co-organizes Agrirobotics Workshop at IROS 2025
On October 20, 2025, the IROS Workshop on Agricultural Robotics (Agrirobotics), co-organized by Dr. Ya Xiong alongside leading experts from Wageningen University, University of Lincoln, and Northwest A&F University, was successfully held at the top-tier robotics conference IROS.
Oct 21, 2025 1 min read
S-H Robotics Lab Co-organizes Agrirobotics Workshop at IROS 2025
Innovative Soft-Rigid Gripper Design Published in IEEE RA-L
A paper led by PhD student Lichao Yang, titled “High-Tolerance Soft-Rigid Gripper for Low-Damage Robotic Strawberry Harvesting,” has been published in the prestigious journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
Oct 9, 2025 1 min read
Paper on Strawberry Bruise Simulation Accepted by Postharvest Biology and Technology
A paper led by Zhicheng Hu, titled “Strawberry bruise susceptibility analysis based on discrete element method coupled with finite element simulation,” has been accepted for publication in Postharvest Biology and Technology.
Sep 25, 2025 1 min read
We Showcase Full-Suite Agricultural Robots at 2025 Pepper Industry Summit
From September 15-16, 2025, the “2025 Pepper Industry (Jize) High-Quality Development Conference” was successfully held in Handan, Hebei Province. The conference served as a key platform for industry exchange, focusing on the standardization and brand development of the pepper industry.
Sep 17, 2025 1 min read
We Showcase Full-Suite Agricultural Robots at 2025 Pepper Industry Summit
Paper on Advanced Strawberry Pose Estimation Technique Published
A paper led by PhD student Tianxiao Zhu, titled “Five-degree-of-freedom strawberry pose estimation using key points and oriented bounding box detection,” has been published in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
Sep 4, 2025 1 min read
Paper on Real-Time Strawberry Mass Estimation Accepted to IROS 2025

We are pleased to announce that the paper “Online Estimation of Table-Top Grown Strawberry Mass in Field Conditions with Occlusions”, led by Master’s student Jinshan Zhen, has been accepted for presentation at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2025). This work addresses a critical challenge in precision agriculture: accurate fruit mass estimation under occlusion scenarios for robotics harvesting.

Jun 15, 2025 1 min read
Paper on Real-Time Strawberry Mass Estimation Accepted to IROS 2025