I've always wanted to work on a peach harvesting robot, having grown up on a peach farm. You're right that it's an incredibly hard problem. We actually had an

I've always wanted to work on a peach harvesting robot, having grown up on a peach farm. You're right that it's an incredibly hard problem. We actually had an automated peach harvester when I was a kid. It worked by encircling the base of the tree with a huge net and then shaking the tree trunk to make the peaches all fall into the net. It worked poorly and bruised the peaches too much to be used, so it sat and rusted away. A useful peach harvesting robot must pluck each peach individually.