Robotic apple harvester - GIF

Robotic apple harvester.

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Previously:

1800s apple peeler/corer tool in action - GIF
1871 apple peeler and slicer - GIF
Apple coring/peeling lathe worker - GIF
Industrial apple peeler - GIF
Manufacturing apple pies - GIF
Racing tractor apple delivery - video
Spinning apple with compressed air until it explodes - GIF

This is the future of automation for orchards and it is here now...

Very complex, but no bruising of the fruit. I wonder if it can determine ripe from unripe via colour difference?

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Originally Posted by albertq

Very complex, but no bruising of the fruit. I wonder if it can determine ripe from unripe via colour difference?

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I have always thought there might be spectral analysis involved, suspect it is a company secret...