The Vegebot uses machine learning to identify ripe, immature and diseased lettuce heads. (CNN photo) Fruit picking robots like this one, developed by Fieldwork Robotics, operate for more than 20 hours a day. (CNN photo) LONDON (CNN Business) — It takes a certain nimbleness to pick a strawberry or a salad. While crops like wheat and potatoes have been harvested mechanically for decades, many fruits and vegetables have proved resistant to automation. They are too easily bruised, or too hard for heavy farm machinery to locate.
But recently, technological developments and advances in machine learning have led to successful trials […]
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