Agri-bots develop soft spot for fruit

摘要

Iintelligent robot strawberry farmers, capable of travelling up and down fields monitoring crops, are being developed in the UK.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.