Product development opportunity

Robotic harvesting of greenhouse cucumbers and bell peppers

Proof-of-concept

  • Designed for robotic harvesting of long English cucumbers and bell peppers
  • Patent-pending* closed-loop cucumber harvesting tool with embedded sensors delivers:
    – Zero risk of cutting main stem
    – Detection of stems obscured by leaves
  • Demonstrated integrated system on mobile platform with robotic arm control algorithms for positioning end-effectors
  • Vision system using low-cost cameras for fruit detection, tracking and ripeness determination
  • Yield prediction model and harvest mapping of bell peppers
  • On-board, real-time computing (no Cloud storage or computing required)

Custom end-effector

 

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