Floating Robotics

Automate harvesting and de-leafing 24/7!

Pick generic trusses every 10 seconds, and cherry trusses every 8 seconds.

Polly is the robotic platform developed by Arugga AI. The  robot successfully replicates buzz pollination. The platform will support several modules: robotic pollination, plant lowering, non-contact pruning and pest & disease detection. The robots have been deployed in Australia, the US, Canada and Finland.

The Swiss company, Floating Robotics, is developing a tomato harvesting robot. The robot will perform in three  areas: harvesting, crating, and some logistics.

Harvest robots for tomatoes & peppers, developed in cooperation with Wageningen University, now ready for the market. https://www.saia-agrobotics.com/

The world’s largest commercial harvesting robot fleet with 150 production robots.

Autonomous wheeled harvester with day & night vision. Collects and integrates data with other systems. https://automatorobotics.com/

"The robot sees the tomato, identifies its ripeness, decides whether or not to pick it. If it decides to pick it, it'll go up suck it in to the vacuum system, pass through the tube and drops it into a crate. Then the crate will get shifted into the packing cart."

A French company still in it's development stage. The Harvey robot is designed to harvest strawberries & tomatoes.

In terms of speed, Panasonic claims it can match a human worker by harvesting 10 tomatoes every minute. The key to the robot's speed is the fast movement of the arm combined with the AI system Panasonic employed to select edible tomatoes. The robot can be mounted on a rail system allowing it to quickly move from one vine to another.