UK: Dogtooth Technologies secures funding for strawberry harvesting robots
Dogtooth Technologies, based in Haslingfield in South Cambridgeshire, has plans to develop the first strawberry harvesting robot designed to replace the hand-picking of strawberries.
The initial phase of the project will involve manufacturing ten harvesting robots and offering them to UK growers. The robots will be able to navigate rows of strawberries, detect and locate ripe strawberries, pick and check the fruit before placing them into a punnet.
If the initial trial succeeds, the project would then seek to expand the production and sell the harvesting robots to farms across the country. The overall aim of project, named ‘Cabeirian’, is to develop technology to allow a single human supervisor to easily deploy and manage teams of robots.
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