{
  "id": 9081602,
  "title": "Visuomotor Robotic Pruning in Planar Orchards Using Hybrid Reinforcement Learning",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/visuomotor-robotic-pruning-in-planar-orchards-using-hybrid",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-21T17:09:58.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "arXiv cs.AI",
    "slug": "arxiv-cs-ai",
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24906v1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Dormant tree pruning is labor-intensive yet essential for maintaining modern high-productivity fruit orchards. In this work, we focus on pruning of modern planar tree training systems - V-Trellis apples and UFO cherries - where trunks and primary branches are trained into approximately planar walls. We introduce an end-to-end pipeline to learn a closed-loop visuomotor controller for robotic…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}