Hey look, the Chobani commercial apple-picking drones are closer to being a real thing ^_^ (twitter.com)

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“AI powered tethered drones picking apples 🤯

These drones use AI image recognition models to determine ripeness and sugar levels in the apples.

Then they use a little arm to pick them.

AI & robotics will completely revolutionize the agriculture industry.”

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[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Odd that tethered drones would be preferable over a robotic arm attached to the same cart?

[-] sam_uk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Precise robot arm control is a surprisingly hard problem. I can see some advantages to being able to move freely in 3D

[-] Banzai51@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

And you'd still have to maneuver the truck more with the arm. With the tethered drone, they could pull up to a tree and take on three-ish trees from one spot.

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