I hate to be a downer but ill believe it when I see it. That robot is big, bulky, and does not look nimble or fast. A human could have picked a couple boxes wor

I hate to be a downer but ill believe it when I see it. That robot is big, bulky, and does not look nimble or fast. A human could have picked a couple boxes worth of berries in the time it took that robot to decide to pick one berry. Anybody who has ever picked berries of any kind, be it strawberries or blueberries or blackberries will tell you, speed is the name of the game and even the average human versus an experienced picker isn't even a competition. An experienced picker is going to be grabbing multiple berries at a time with all of their fingers, not just one at a time. An experienced picker will have decided which berries to pick next before they even got done putting the ones they just picked into a basket which only takes a fraction of a second. You will get far better returns breeding and genetically modifying the plants to be easier to pick or shake the berries loose than any robot ive ever seen. Sure, it is technically feasible, but nobody is going to spend a million dollars on a robot that doesn't pick faster than an experienced human, it would take multiple decades to pay itself off even if you assumed the power and maintenance was free. Maybe in another 10 years it will be worth seriously looking into berry picking robots again, but berries are literally the hardest and most difficult fruit for a robot to pick. Uneven ripening, very delicate fruits, tangled messes of plant vines, very little maneuvering room, ect. It is like trying to automate a rally car before you are able to automate an oval track race.