Scientists from the Norwegian University created a robot for harvesting strawberries (photo)

Scientists from the Norwegian University of Natural Sciences, together with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, created and tested a robot for harvesting strawberries grown on polytunnels, writes “Agro-Center”.

The robot is designed to target the berry, not the stalk, and just needs a place to collect fruit.

Since the robot does not have to move between each berry and a separate basket, the time of harvesting is greatly reduced. The scan system is designed for the selection of ripe and accessible strawberries.

The new robot was tested on a farm. The time of collecting berries is 7.5 seconds with a success rate of 53.6% in farm conditions. Most failures occur when collecting strawberries into clusters.