Re:Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’
by amelius on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:06PM
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Looking from those images, I think they are using the wrong kind of hand. A better hand would simply be a "vacuum cleaner" end, i.e., gripping the fruit by suction power. If it can't be gripped like that, it is probably not fruit that needs to be selected.
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Re:Fruit-sorting robot ‘will disrupt the industry’
by masklinn on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @03:42PM
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Suction would bruise anything but the hardiest and greenest apples, same as a hickey except now it rots all your fruits. Some fruits are already ridiculously sensible to bruising as it is (pears from the family orchards bruise if you look at them funny)