Apple picking robot, Abundant Robotics, Inc., Menlo Park, California, USA

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Developer - Abundant Robotics, Inc. (https://pr.ai/showthread.php?15419)

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Article "Abundant Robotics spins out of SRI to bring apple-picking robots to the farm (https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/10/abundant-robotics-spins-out-of-sri-to-bring-apple-picking-robots-to-the-farm)"

by Lora Kolodny
August 10, 1916

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Article "SRI Spin-off Abundant Robotics Developing Autonomous Apple Vacuum (https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/sri-spin-off-abundant-robotics-developing-autonomous-apple-vacuum)"

by Evan Ackerman
August 15, 2016

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https://youtu.be/mS0coCmXiYU

Robotic apple picker trials continue in Washington

Published on Oct 28, 2016


A vacuum picker under development by Abundant Robotics of Menlo Park, California, has the apple industry closer than it’s ever been to fully automating harvest — a potential game changer for growers and the industry at large. Abundant co-founders Dan Steere and Curt Salisbury talk about the latest trials during a demonstration in a Central Washington orchard in 2016. (© TJ Mullinax/Good Fruit Grower)

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"Apple-picking robot targets labour-hungry fruit sector in Australia (https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-05-30/apple-picking-robot-could-solve-labour-shortage-issues/8573036)"

by Laurissa Smith
May 29, 2017