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A trio of roboticists at CREATE Lab, EPFL, in Switzerland, has designed, built and tested a robot that can pick raspberries. In their project, reported in the journal Communications Engineering, Kai Junge, Catarina Pires and Josie Hughes designed and tested their robot based on a new idea to reduce the cost of designing fruit-picking robots.
Over the past several years, the demand for food has grown with rising population. In response, scientists are looking for ways to produce more food at a reasonable coast. One approach involves using robots instead of humans to perform manual labor, such as picking fruit, TechXplore informs.
Picking almost any fruit on a large scale is, by its nature, labor intensive and fruit harvesting is considered to be a relatively expensive operation. So scientists have been working toward the use of robots to pick fruit. This has proven to be more difficult for certain crops than others. Picking raspberries, for example, is difficult for a robot as it involves multiple skills. A robot must be able to determine which fruit is ripe and it must be able to pick each one individually without causing any damage to the fragile fruit.
East Fruit/July 1, 2023