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AssigneeDogtooth Technologies Limited
InventorsDuncan Robertson, Edward Herbert, Matthew Cook, Frank Tully, Chris Padbury, Thomas Redman, Tom Hellier, Nick Scott, Adrian Dunlop, Ruan Kendall
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There is provided a robot fruit picking system comprising an autonomous robot. The system includes a picking arm or other end effector positioning device; and an end effector mounted on the picking arm configured to either cut a fruit or stalk or stem for a specific fruit or bunch of fruits or pluck that fruit or bunch, and to transfer the fruit or bunch to a storage buffer subsystem. The storage buffer subsystem is configured to receive the fruit or bunch, and to transfer the fruit or bunch to a transportation or inspection or storage subsystem.
A robot fruit picking system comprising an autonomous robot, the robot fruit picking system including:
A method of picking a fruit using a robot fruit picking system, the method comprising the steps of:
A fruit picking end effector for a robot fruit picking system, the end effector being mountable on a picking arm or other end effector positioning device, the end effector comprising a set of jaws and a cutter assembly that slides along the set of jaws;
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