DENSO: Developed fruit harvesting robot: Harvesting apples and pears
Denso
Agricultural Research Organization,
Ritsumeikan University,
Harvest fruits such as apples and pears at about the same speed as humans.
Developed a prototype of a fruit harvesting robot.
The company plans to continue empirical research for practical use.
Automation of fruit harvesting operations:
In particular,
Realize automation and mechanization of work for 9 fruit trees such as citrus fruits and apples.
Developed a row dense tree planting form,
According to the V-shaped tree shape,
Can be used for various tasks,
We have been developing self-driving cars and harvesting robots.
Fruit storage container system:
When the container is full of fruits,
Automatically replace with an empty container
Continue automatic harvesting work.
Harvesting is possible at almost the same speed as human harvesting (11 seconds / piece).
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Agricultural Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University, Denso develops prototype of automatic fruit harvesting robot