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New robotic gripper for automated apple picking developed (techxplore.com)

submitted 3 months ago by onlinepersona to c/tech

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A robotic gripper developed by Washington State University researchers is able to gently grab the majority of apples out of a tree without damaging the fruit.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What, one fruit at a time?

I thought large-scale fruit tree harvesting was mostly done like this.