Apple-picking robot offers fix for farm labour and climate stress

The Land

Hugh Zhou, MARS founder and researcher, has developed a robotic harvesting system for commercial orchards that can help address labour shortage and can deliver rapid help ahead of extreme weather events.

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00:00The entire robotic project was born from the frustration, the deep frustration of the growers.

00:07They have a very severe concern on labor shortage and climate uncertainties.

00:13So over the past seven years we've been developing this robot to provide them an alternative solution

00:21to fill the gap of labor shortage and potentially help them to be more resistant

00:27to this climate pressure. So that's where we build this robot up.

00:34With this fundamental technology being developed down the journey of airport picking,

00:39we are confident that we can expand this to other crops by tuning a bit of parameters

00:47in the algorithm and customize for different crops.

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