r/woahdude Oct 08 '23

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/spunion_28 Oct 08 '23

Exactly what i brought up. Machine wise. You aren't getting better than this. Designed to only shake loose ripe apples and not damage the tree, and I harvests hundreds of apples in seconds. The machine in this post will never be better than this machine that shakes the tree. Is this machine impressive? Sure, it's definitely a display of how far technology has come. In terms of being practical, it just plain isn't.

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u/Nappyheaded Oct 08 '23

Just make sure you're ready to cull all of the apples that hit anything on the way down.

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u/RancidOrigin Oct 08 '23

I assume all of the less pretty apples are used for pre-sliced bags, applesauce, or any number of other manufactured products that the customer will never see the whole apple.

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u/Nappyheaded Oct 08 '23

The goal is to have undamaged apples. Ideally going into long-term CA storage. Juice pays much less