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Sweet pepper harvest FIN-RAY
This video shows the robotic harvesting of sweet pepper fruit in a commercial Dutch greenhouse in June 2014. Two different types of end equipment were designed and tested, this video shows the robot with the “Fin-Ray gripper”. This grab has a combined grip and cutter mechanism. First it grips the fruit and then the fruit…
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Sweet pepper robot harvesting
This video shows the robotic harvesting of sweet pepper fruit in a commercial Dutch greenhouse in June 2014. Two different types of end-equipment were designed and tested, this video shows the robot with the patent pending “Lip-type” manupulator. This end effector first stabilizes the fruit with a suction cup, after which two rings grip the…
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Salad harvest with robots
CAMBRIDGE-I UNIVERSITYLocation: Cambridge, UK The harvesting of lettuce is difficult to mechanize with robots because of the sensitivity of the plant and its proximity to the ground. But researchers at Cambridge University have made a breakthrough with the so-called “Vegebot” machine, a prototype of a special computer vision-based agricultural robot. Basic operation. One camera scans…
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