摘要
加州的草莓田面临严重挑战,机器人能够帮忙吗?在加州圣马丽亚郊区的一座草莓田里(它周围也都是同样的草莓田),整个夏天的采摘工作都是由两个机器人完成的。由科罗拉多州Tortuga农业科技公司生产的这两个机器人,靠越野轮胎在架高的植床之间缓慢移动,然后在一株植物前面停下来。一支多关节手臂在叶子间操控其排列感应器;机器视觉软件仔细检查感应器数据,找寻成熟的莓果。
In a strawberry field surrounded by strawberry fields on the outskirts of Santa Maria,[Californial],a pair of robots have been picking berries allsummer.Each robot,made by a Colorado company called Tortuga AgTech,trundles between the elevated beds on rugged wheels,then stops in front of a plant.An articulated arm maneuvers its sensor arrayamong the leaves;machine vision software scours the sensor data in search of ripe berries.
