Robot arm prototype tested on sweet peppers

From FreshPlaza: Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture, based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, is testing a prototype of a robot arm on sweet peppers. The robot is an intermediate result of the European FP7 project Clever robots for crops, CROPS, which is coordinated by Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture. In the project fourteen partners from ten countries are participating.

During the first 18 months of the project the European projects partners settled the requirements for such a system and developed and tested modules for this prototype. These modules have now been put together in Wageningen.

The robot manipulator is designed to grip and to cut the ripe fruits from the plants and to transport them to a container.

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