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Underactuated, Tendon-Driven End-Effector for a Robotic Apple Harvester
Abstract
Apple picking is very labor intensive and expensive. Between 15-18 billion apples are harvested every year in Washington state alone for fresh market consumption, but often farmers can’t find enough people to pick the fruit. Furthermore, laborers are hard to acquire as apple picking is seasonal. This presents an urgent need for improved...
Published: 5/25/2023
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Inventor(s): Joseph Davidson, Changki Mo, Abhisesh Silwal, Manoj Karkee, Qin Zhang
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