olive/carrot/strawberry harvesting machine GIFs

[Jon]

Olive, carrot, and strawberry harvesting machines, each purpose-built for harvesting a single kind of fruit or vegetable. While we rarely see homebuilt versions of these machines, it's fascinating how different each one is, and how much of our technology goes into replicating the action of the human hand.

Might need to wait a bit for all of these GIFs to load, or use the links to put each one in a separate browser tab.


Olive Harvester: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net..._harvester.gif


Carrot Harvester: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net..._harvester.gif


Strawberry Harvester: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net..._harvester.gif


The strawberry picking "machine" is funny, but it's not an internet hoax. There are many other similar designs online that are intended to place one or more human pickers in a prone position. Agrobot makes an interesting fully-automated strawberry harvester, but it looks like fairly new and extremely expensive technology: