Spanish company Agrobot’s SW their days 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.
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.