SWEEPER Robot Picks Peppers (image)

American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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The world's most advanced sweet pepper harvesting robot, developed in a consortium including Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers, was introduced last week at the Research Station for Vegetable Production at St. Katelijne Waver in Belgium. SWEEPER is designed to operate in a single stem row cropping system, with non-clustered fruits and little leaf occlusion.The Ben Gurion U. team spearheaded efforts to improve the robot's ability to detect ripe produce using computer vision, and has played a role in defining the specifications of the robot's hardware and software interfaces, focusing on supervisory control activities.

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Research Station for Vegetable Production at St. Katelijne Waver

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