Red harvest: robot farmers find sweet spot for strawberries | The Engineer

by Alex Kirkpatrick

24 February 2017

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Dogtooth Technologies, a start-up company based near Cambridge, is developing autonomous robots designed to harvest soft fruits such as strawberries. The company tested its first prototype robot in the field in the summer of 2016, and is already working on an improved version. Five of these second generation robots are due to be operating on a farm this summer.

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