Last month, Ocado released footage of a new bagging robot, capable of picking products and carefully placing them into shopping bags based on the shape and weight of each item. A robot that can autonomously harvest tomatoes has been developed by Japanese electronics firm Panasonic. The robot, called the Panasonic Tomato Picker 2, is designed to pick up and move a tomato plant from one location in Japan to another. Mounted on a rail alongside the vine, the company said the robot can perform as well as a human picker, averaging a pace of 10 tomatoes per minute. The device has been publicly demonstrated but Panasonic has made no announcement about its likely cost or plans for its production.
A robot that can autonomously harvest tomatoes has been developed by Japanese electronics firm Panasonic. The robot, called the Panasonic Tomato Picker 2, is designed to pick up and move a tomato plant from one location in Japan to another. Mounted on a rail alongside the vine, the company said the robot can perform as well as a human picker, averaging a pace of 10 tomatoes per minute. The device has been publicly demonstrated but Panasonic has made no announcement about its likely cost or plans for its production.