Title:
Flying Autonomous Robot Uses AI to Identify and Pick Ripe Fruit
Author:
Derya Ozdemir
Published:
Interesting Engineering, 19 February 2021
From the article:
Fruit picking is a physically laborious task that can require a lot of standing, crouching, and climbing for up to eight hours a day. While it may have its up moments, it is generally a low-paid, seasonal, and repetitive work that has few likelihoods for advancement, and as younger generations migrate to urban areas, the pickers are aging and a global shortage of seasonal fruit pickers is worsening.