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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.

During the 2025 National Two Sessions, CCTV-4’s special program “Two Sessions I Care About” spotlighted cutting-edge agricultural technologies, featuring the strawberry harvesting robot developed by S-H Robotics Lab. The robot exemplifies China’s progress toward “high-quality development of agricultural machinery” as outlined in the 2025 Central Document No. 1.

On January 20, 2025, the S-H Robotics Lab held its annual Chinese New Year Seminar, where lab members presented their progress in 2024, and outlined goals for the coming year.

We are delighted to share that our paper, “A Fast Path-Planning Method for Continuous Harvesting of Table-Top Grown Strawberries,” has been accepted by the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics.

This work was primarily conducted by Mr. Yang Chen, our former Master’s student, with the conceptual foundation proposed by Dr. Ya Xiong.

Recently, the Haidiain District Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized a milestone project completion review meeting for the 2024 Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Projects. The meeting was attended by representatives from the district’s financial bureau, the Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee, and a panel of experts to assess the progress of projects hosted by S-H Robotics Lab.

We are thrilled to announce that the National Engineering Research Center for Information Technology in Agriculture (Nercita) has been approved to lead a major project under the 2024 National Key R&D Program. The project, titled “Application of Human-Machine-Environment-Agronomy Intelligent Collaborative Models in Unmanned Open-Field Vegetable Scenarios” (Project No. 2024YFD200800), represents a groundbreaking effort to integrate large-scale models into the field of smart agricultural equipment.

During the 2024 China Seed Congress held in Fengtai District Park from October 16th to 18th, representatives from the Fengtai District Government and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs visited our exhibition area in the No.6 Intelligent Greenhouse. They observed our spraying robot in action and highly affirmed our innovative achievements in agricultural intelligence, commending the application prospects of our technology in smart agriculture.