This robot knows how to gently support, grasp, and pluck these berries without bruising or squishing them in the process.
. But many of these machines are still in an early stage, with the bottleneck factor being the inefficient and costly field trials companies typically have to undergo to fine tune the robot.
. The faux raspberry contains sensors that measure compression force and pressure. Two magnets hold the fruit and the stem together.In a small test with real raspberries, the robot was able to harvest 60 percent of the fruits without damaging them. That’s fairly low compared to the 90 percent from human harvesters on average, signaling to the team that there are still kinks to work out.
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