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Harvesting is one of the most labor-intensive operations in fresh fruit production. However, many countries face farm labor shortages that reduce labor availability and increase costs.
Academic researchers have been developing harvesting robot technologies and prototypes for the past forty years, and startup companies have been striving to build commercial robots for twenty or more years. However, commercial fresh fruit harvesting still relies on manual labor.
Join the AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems (AIFS) on the UC Davis campus for an exciting event demonstrating the latest developments in farm robotics and AI technologies.
UCD and AIFS Faculty member, Dr. Stavros Vougioukas, will present the state of the art in harvesting robots and explain the main factors limiting their speed and efficiency. He will discuss results from AI research performed in his lab and propose research directions that promise to overcome the current limitations and lead us to cost-effective, real-world harvesting robots.
Learn more about the event here.