Robotic arm technology.
Data collection and analysis systems make it possible to identify the fruit and determine the stage of its ripeness for harvesting. Artificial intelligence allows the robot to perform more efficiently and control the life cycle of a plant.
The vision of the robot, using artificial intelligence, determines the ripeness and plans the trajectory of the movement of the robot arm in order to pick the fruit. People define the degree of ripeness of a tomato differently, but robots are free from such subjectivity and pick tomatoes with the same degree of ripeness. If the farmer wants to collect less ripeness tomatoes for long transportation, then it is enough to make changes to the robot settings and it will also collect tomatoes that are greener than those that were harvested before.
Tomatoes are more fragile than peppers, and strawberries are even more tender. So the robots use a soft-fingered gripper that twists the fruit as it is pulled out to separate it from the plant.
