Demo of Sweeper to be presented in June

At the European Robotics Forum 2019, Jos Balendonck and his team from Wageningen University & Research, together with a European consortium of partners and the spin-off Saia Agrobotics, became a finalist of the Tech Transfer Award with the Sweeper sweet pepper harvesting robot.

A demo of the Sweeper will be presented in June at the GreenTech Amsterdam. The Sweeper robot is the first sweet pepper harvesting robot in the world to be demonstrated in a commercial greenhouse. Sweeper has been concentrating on harvesting peppers for the past three years, with 1.3 million tonnes being produced annually in Europe.