A skilled human can pick a head of lettuce every 10 seconds. Just reach down, slice a mature head off its stalk, bag it, toss it in the cart. Easy, right? Tell that to wannabe veggie-picking robots.

Engineers have developed a vegetable-picking robot to complete the challenging task of harvesting lettuces. The prototype Vegebot, developed by a team at Cambridge University, is nowhere near as fast ...

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The potatoes and wheat you regularly consume have been picked by robots for the past few decades but there are certain vegetables that are particularly hesitant to mechanical hands. Take the humble ...

Using a robotic arm, Vegebot grips the lettuce cutting the base e to pick it, without crushing or otherwise damaging it. It first identifies the target crop within its field of vision, then determines ...

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