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"Fruit rotting on trees or on the ground costs farmers some $30 billion in sales a year. Fruit picked even two weeks late loses 80 percent of its value.
A major reason for wasted produce: A global shortage of fruit pickers, estimated to grow to five million missing workers by 2050.
Even today, more than 10% of all fruit worldwide cannot be harvested – equivalent to the total annual consumption of fruit in the entire European Union. ...
Israeli startup Tevel Aerobotics Technologies has developed flying autonomous robots (FARs) that take off from a base station, pick only the ripe fruit off the tree and gently lower it for collection. ...
The robots run on gas and electricity. They’re tethered, so they don’t need to land to be recharged.
Each FAR is equipped with advanced artificial intelligence (AI) that helps it determine whether a particular fruit is ready for picking; the best way to twist and turn the fruit off the branch with its one-meter-long mechanical arm; and whether it has blemishes that make it unmarketable and therefore should be discarded. ..."
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