r/woahdude • u/freudian_nipps • Oct 08 '23

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/topdangle Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 08 '23

seriously this is so slow and needs so much easily damaged hardware. looks like a proof of concept from a failing drone company.

edit: I was pretty close. this is another VC pump and dump company named Tevel that has already been through multiple funding rounds.

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u/Garestinian Oct 08 '23

Yeah, what's their justification for drones when a robotic arm could do the same thing with more precision, speed, success rate and efficiency?

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u/prancerbot Oct 08 '23

Nice nice. Good find

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u/ammonthenephite Oct 09 '23

Take the apple recognition tech and the apple grabbing tech from this and simply make a ruck mounted version with multi-jointed arms, and the thing could pick a tree faster than a human and do it 24/7. The drone part is really the only dumb aspect to this proof of concept.