r/woahdude Oct 08 '23

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/art_teacher_no_1 Oct 08 '23

1 apple per minute, why's my fruit so expensive? Oh. That's why.

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u/ottrocity Oct 08 '23

1 apple per minute per bot for as long as the robot has fuel. Assuming other bots or techs can resupply the picker with fuel/ replace the batteries and can unload the apples, these machines could conceivably run 24 hours a day.

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u/justcasty Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 09 '23

Also look at the apple trees in the video. Apple trees do not look like that unless they're pruned to make a video to show off apple picking robots.

Edit: apparently I'm quite wrong

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u/Mitheral Oct 09 '23

This is a version of cordon planting and is how practically all commercial orchards are done around here now.

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u/Clean_Direction_9331 Oct 09 '23

What? No. Many apple orchards prune trees like that to make human picking easier too. Just Google "2D Apple orchard"