‘Robocrop’ Can Pick 25,000 Raspberries a Day
28th May 2019
Appearing tentative, the world’s first raspberry-picking robot is harvesting a fruit. After assessing its age, the robot plucks the fruit with its “holding arm” and cautiously deposits it into a waiting basket. The entire process takes about one minute for a single berry. It has been joyfully nicknamed “Robocrop” by British journalists, an homage to Alex Murphy aka RoboCop.
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