Spanish company Agrobot’s SW 6010 is used to detect and pick ripe strawberries. Taking just 4 seconds for the machines to then put the strawberries on a conveyor belt, fruits are then packaged into containers by hand. The machine can also be programmed with different types of fruit such as apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, apricots, peaches, nectarines or pears. Prospero, a specialist seed-planting robot, is another of Dorhout’s robots.
Spanish company Agrobot’s SW 6010 is used to detect and pick ripe strawberries. Taking just 4 seconds for the machines to then put the strawberries on a conveyor belt, fruits are then packaged into containers by hand. Aquarius, made by David Dorhout at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is a greenhouse-watering robot that can carry up to 30 gallons of water and uses sensors to detect levels of moisture in soil to calculate how much water a given plant needs. Prospero, a specialist seed-planting robot, is another of Dorhout’s robots.