There are people who love coconuts, and then there are people who really love coconuts. Those are the people willing to climb to the top of a coconut tree to make sure they’re getting the freshest of ...

Miami resident Hector Galvez remembers the first time he tried to climb a coconut tree. “Going up was great, but on the way down, I developed so many blisters I could barely walk,” Galvez says. “That ...

Developed by young engineers in Kerala, Cocobot is a coconut-harvesting robot designed to climb 20-metre palm trees and cut ripe fruit safely from the ground.

As the population increasingly moves towards tech jobs, there's now a shortage of coconut harvesters in India. That's why scientists there have built a tree-climbing coconut-harvesting robot, that ...