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I toured a commercial apple orchard 10 years ago. They use massive parallel conveyor system with laser-imaging for quality and gates to sort. I'd be surprised
by rubidium 11y ago
I toured a commercial apple orchard 10 years ago. They use massive parallel conveyor system with laser-imaging for quality and gates to sort.
I'd be surprised if this robotic arm+vision system could compete on cost and through-put.
- Retric 11y agoNote this "can distinguish and selectively pick fruit." Right now you either set up nets, have a machine bulk shake a tree and take what falls, or pay someone to pick ripe fruit. The conveyor system would then sort the collected fruit. This system either replaces human collectors or significantly increases yields compared to shaking the trees. But, you would likely still need the bulk sorting at a later stage.