Wimbledon Ready: Robot Strawberry Pickers
Rubion Strawberry Picking Robots Source: Octinion's Rubion Robot Launched to Coincide with Wimbledon's Famous Berry Consumption Belgium based R&D company Octinion has developed the world's first strawberry picking robot. Their Rubion robot relies on photonic sensors and a unique soft touch gripper to select and pick ripe strawberries as safely as a human. They launched the Rubion, which has been five years under development, to coincide with the famous consumption of strawberries at Wimbledon. They say it would take 14 of their robots less than 7 days to pick and package all of the strawberries needed for the Wimbledon crowds. Fully Autonomous, Spots Ripe Fruit and Picks The soft fruit picking robot navigates the strawberry plants, picks ripe ones and places them in containers. It's equipped with photonic sensors that detect the light that bounces off ripe strawberries. It has a patented, soft touch gripper that gently plucks th...