Kaijun Fan

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Kaijun Fan is an agricultural robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of automation, horticulture, and sustainable food production. His research focuses primarily on developing intelligent mechanical systems to modernize labor-intensive greenhouse and nursery operations, with particular emphasis on grafting robotics and transplanting manipulators for vegetable cultivation. Fan's most recognized contribution is his development of a high-productivity grafting robot for Solanaceae crops, a system designed to address the persistent challenges of low efficiency, inconsistent quality, and heavy labor demands associated with manual grafting practices. This work, which has garnered nearly 30 citations across related publications, advances environmentally sustainable disease prevention by eliminating the need for chemical soil treatments. Equally significant is his engineering of a specialized transplanting manipulator tailored for hydroponic leafy vegetable production in South China, innovatively solving the mechanical challenge of handling low-density coco-peat substrate blocks that conventional pickup tools struggle to grip reliably. Collectively, Fan's research represents a meaningful push toward fully mechanized controlled-environment agriculture, offering practical solutions that reduce human labor dependency while maintaining crop quality. His work is particularly valuable to researchers and engineers seeking scalable automation strategies for modern greenhouse industries.