"As growing seasons shift with climate change, fruit may be ready sooner than growers expect.
Enter the robots. Tevel, based in Israel, has created a swarm of fruit-picking robots that could lend a few spare hands when fruits ripen unpredictably soon and risk spoiling on the tree, according to Ittai Marom, U.S. general manager at Tevel.
A platform on wheels serves as the base for a group of eight robots, which each have a picking arm ending in a gripper.As the platform rolls through an orchard, the robots fly up to tree branches, identify ripe fruit, pick it from the tree, and deposit them on a platform. There are cameras on the robot and Tevel's software identifies ripe fruit after analyzing the color and size.
"Somebody who is today a team leader of a picking crew, in the near future might find themselves monitoring a robotic picker from the convenience of an air-conditioned pickup truck," Marom says.
As part of a handful of collaborations, the robots have harvested apples in Italy and Chile, and peaches, nectarines and plums in California. There's room for improvement on speed -- for now people are still faster at gathering fruit off the trees, Marom says." [1]
1.The Future of Everything: The Energy & Climate Issue --- Farm Tech Tackles Climate Change: Heavier rainfall, harsher winters and disease-causing pests will challenge farmers. Subbaraman, Nidhi. Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 08 June 2023: R.2.
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