‘Clive’ the fruit-picking robot gets to work in Goulburn Valley to cover seasonal worker gap

'Clive' the fruit-picking robot gets to work in Goulburn Valley to cover seasonal worker gap

Granny Smith apples harvested at Peter Hall’s family orchard near Mooroopna in Victoria’s Goulburn Valley. (ABC Rural: Warwick Long) In what is believed to be an Australian first, a robot fruit picker will be working on two Goulburn Valley properties to see if it is a commercially viable alternative to human labour.

The machine, named Clive, built by Australian company Ripe Robotics will roam up and down rows of fruit trees in the orchards of Turnbull Brothers and HV McNab and Son near Shepparton when harvest begins this summer.

"There are some sensors and cameras that, as the mach7ine moves along […]

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