Robots will pack the fruit

Agricultural technology companies presented interesting novelties at Forbes magazine’s AGTECH conference this year, including a robot arm, equipped with ultra-soft manipulator that can replace human labor in the packaging of vegetables and fruits – agrarszektor.hu wrote.

The robots are operating by traditional production lines for years, while taken only a little share out of tasks that require advanced, fine work, including the sorting and packaging of fruits and vegetables. Soft Robotics would like to change this. The Cambridge-based robot development company is focusing on those markets with its custom-designed robots, which have so far been left out of the automation. (blog.syngenta.com, agrarszektor.hu)