It's been done, by the iSaffron unit of Solbar Food Technologies in Israel.[1] Or so says a hype site from iSaffron in 2021.[2] No current mention. Solbar is th

It's been done, by the iSaffron unit of Solbar Food Technologies in Israel.[1] Or so says a hype site from iSaffron in 2021.[2] No current mention. Solbar is the largest soybean processor in Israel, and saffron would be a rounding error for them. A Swedish company which produces saffron uses some robotics.[3] There's a German student group doing something. Nobody has video of anything working. It's probably do-able, but too niche to justify the effort. This 2018 "automatic saffron processing machine" looks fake.[4] [1] https://www.solbartech.com/about/ https://www.solbartech.com/about/ [2] https://www.isaffron.life/ https://www.isaffron.life/ [3] https://osterlensaffran.io/ https://osterlensaffran.io/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQMwknN8wQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQMwknN8wQY