Computer Sciences
Despite the simplicity of their visual system, fruit flies are able to reliably distinguish between individuals based on sight alone. This is a task that even humans who spend their whole lives studying Drosophila melanogaster ...
Oct 25, 2018
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Robotics
A novel insect-inspired flying robot, developed by TU Delft researchers from the Micro Air Vehicle Laboratory (MAVLab), is presented in Science (14 September 2018). Experiments with this first autonomous, free-flying and ...
Sep 13, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—Could a fruit in India—long known for its nutritional and medicinal value—and often sold at a low price on pavements and at traffic junctions—-make solar cells cheaper and more efficient?
Engineering
One bad apple may not spoil the whole bunch, but when it comes to distributing food, a lot of good goes out with the bad.
Oct 4, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists from the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University of Singapore developed a method for converting fruit wastes such as coconut husks, orange peels, and banana peels into a solar absorber ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
One of the world's most important artificial materials is back in vogue because scientists are harnessing its properties for new and diverse future applications such as space navigation and farming.
Jan 20, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Recently, an article published in Horticulture Research proposed an in-field fruit counting method based on deep learning. The experiment was performed in two orange orchards in Meishan city in the Sichuan Province of China. ...
Aug 8, 2022
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Robotics
Penn State agricultural engineers have developed, for the first time, a prototype "end-effector" capable of deftly removing unwanted apples from trees—the first step toward robotic, green-fruit thinning.
Jul 19, 2022
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Computer Sciences
A researcher from Skoltech and his German colleagues have developed a neural network-based classification algorithm that can use data from an apple orchard to predict how well apples will fare in long-term storage. The paper ...
Mar 30, 2021
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Computer Sciences
Modern farming has evolved by adopting technical advances such as machines for ploughing and harvesting, controlled irrigation, fertilisers, pesticides, crop breeding and genetics research. These have helped farmers to produce ...
Jan 28, 2020
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The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds, and the presence of seeds indicates that a structure is most likely a fruit, though not all seeds come from fruits.
No single terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits. The term 'false fruit' (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes applied to a fruit like the fig (a multiple-accessory fruit; see below) or to a plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers. Some gymnosperms, such as yew, have fleshy arils that resemble fruits and some junipers have berry-like, fleshy cones. The term "fruit" has also been inaccurately applied to the seed-containing female cones of many conifers.
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