HANGZHOU, CN / ACCESS Newswire / February 26, 2026 / Around the Spring Festival period, it is the peak harvesting time for mustard tubers, the core raw material for Fuling pickled mustard. For local farmers, this is both a season of bounty and the most difficult time of the year. The mustard tubers are mostly grown on undulating hilly terrain, where the narrow, slippery field ridges make it impossible for agricultural vehicles to access. Transporting the heavy tubers from the fields to the roadside relies entirely on farmers carrying baskets on their shoulders and backs, trudging unsteadily through the muddy ground. A single trip moves only about 100 jin (50 kg) and takes nearly an hour to complete the round trip. This "last mile" transportation bottleneck has become the most grueling obstacle during the annual mustard harvest season.

This year, a special group of "porters" has appeared among the ridges. DEEP Robotics' quadruped robots made a dedicated trip to Fuling to participate in a public welfare harvest assistance initiative, introducing embodied intelligent robots into the fields to genuinely solve problems for the local people. At the harvest assistance site, the quadruped robots navigated the narrow field ridges to reach harvesting points, traversing the slippery muddy paths steadily while transporting baskets of mustard tubers from the fields to centralized collection points. Leveraging their robust load-bearing capacity, DEEP Robotics' robot dogs can carry significantly more per trip than manual laborers, drastically reducing the number of round trips. Simultaneously, in the complex mountainous terrain with crisscrossing paths, the robot dogs rely on their onboard sensors to identify obstacles such as rocks and puddles in real time, automatically adjusting their routes to navigate around them. They shuttle precisely between harvesting points and collection areas based on set waypoints, achieving automated transportation from field to staging area, making the transfer of mustard tubers smoother and more efficient.

"In the past, we had to carry the mustard manually from the fields to the roadside. This robot dog can go up and down slopes in the farmland and transport things back and forth automatically. It solves the hardest 'last mile' problem from the farmland to the road and has truly reduced our burden and saved us effort," said a local farmer on-site, wiping away sweat as he calculated the benefits. With the robot dog's involvement, the transport volume within the same timeframe had significantly increased. More importantly, it freed up human labor from the heavy physical work. A staff member from the Harvest Organization Office of the Chongqing Fuling District Agriculture and Rural Committee also commented: "As one of the world's most advanced technologies, the robot dog can effectively serve the transportation process in this Fuling public welfare agricultural assistance initiative. It can easily access terrain that traditional machinery cannot reach, undertake heavier transport tasks, and achieve intelligent mustard transfer, making the agricultural production process more convenient. This is a successful validation of intelligent robots in mountainous agricultural scenarios."

Currently, leveraging AI and robotics technology to empower modern agriculture and solve logistics challenges in complex terrain has become a significant global trend in agricultural technology development. DEEP Robotics' assistance initiative in Fuling, Chongqing, is a vivid practice of transforming cutting-edge technology into tangible productive forces. This is not the first time DEEP Robotics has brought its robots to challenging frontline scenarios-from the Tibetan antelope scientific research expeditions in the uninhabited Hoh Xil region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, to power inspections at wind farms in the uninhabited Gobi Desert of Ningxia, and now to the public welfare harvest assistance in the fields of Fuling, Chongqing. Wherever there is a need, DEEP Robotics goes, consistently dedicated to deploying its robot dogs in harsh environments and on various frontlines requiring repetitive labor. With every endeavor, DEEP Robotics attempts to answer the same fundamental question: how technology can truly serve people and alleviate their burdens.

As the robot dog shuttles back and forth along the muddy ridges, carrying load after load, the meaning of technology assisting agriculture and serving practical needs becomes tangible and real. This is not just a public welfare initiative; it is a demonstration: true technological innovation transcends laboratory parameter breakthroughs and flashy stage performances. Its true test lies in whether it can step into the fields, into every place where ordinary people need help. DEEP Robotics' exploration proves that global technology companies, by engaging in rural revitalization and serving agricultural modernization with such down-to-earth efforts, are steadily turning visions into reality.

Company: DEEP Robotics
Contact: Vivian Chen
Email: chenlingjia@deeprobotics.cn
Website: https://www.deeprobotics.cn/en

SOURCE: DEEP Robotics