Four Growers robots harvest in real time using stereo cameras and vacuum nozzles
anselm · x · 2026-09-15
Pittsburgh AgTech company Four Growers demonstrated multiple harvesting robots working in real time: stereo cameras map the plant canopy and judge ripeness, and a vacuum nozzle — no blade, no gripper — pulls each fruit up a tube into a crate on the machine. The video shows the full no-damage picking pipeline.
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