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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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

On May 29, 2025, our “HarvestFlex-I” Strawberry Harvesting Robot was invited to exhibit at the China-Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Forum in Tianjin, under the theme “AI for China, AI for SCO”. The demonstration garnered high-level attention and media coverage.

On May 27, 2025, our Laser Weeding Robot and Pollination Robot stood out among 100+ competing projects at the 2nd Xiong’an Future City Scenarios Competition - Smart Agriculture Track, both receiving Excellence Awards after rigorous evaluation.

On May 24, 2025, our HarvestFlex strawberry harvesting robot was invited to demonstrate at the National Smart Agriculture Education Innovation Conference in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, coinciding with the launch ceremony of the National Vocational College Smart Agriculture Skills Competition. The live picking demonstrations attracted widespread attention from agricultural educators and industry experts across China.

Dr. Xiong Ya and Dr. Lin Sen from the S-H Robotics Lab attended the 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft 2025) in Switzerland from April 22-25, 2025, followed by an academic visit to EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

In the modern agricultural innovation center of Baodian Town, Ningjin County, Shandong Province, our spraying robots are revolutionizing greenhouse farming. These robots use AI-powered navigation and high-precision sensors to monitor crops, apply water, nutrients, and pesticides with pinpoint accuracy, and ensure optimal growing conditions for tomatoes.