The tennis championships famously serves thousands of punnets of strawberries each year, with the uniform, rich red colour usually associated with perfectly ripe fruit.

But new research by scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in collaboration with agri-tech firm Antobot, suggests the colour of strawberries captured by cameras - widely used in agricultural robotics to determine ripeness - may not be as reliable as previously thought.

They discovered that much of the colour variation seen in images of strawberries is not due to natural differences in the fruit, but caused by the camera systems themselves.

Prof Graham Finlayson, from UEA’s School of Computing Sciences, said farms are increasingly relying on automated robotics technology in the race to modernise food production, with........

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