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Ffrobotics Ltd.

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Iso Horti Innovators

Gideon Avigad

Patrick Dallaire

Mohamed Kashkoush

Avi Kahani

Shaul Salomon

Yoav Koster

Jyoti Prakash Naidu

Ranjan Kumar Mishra

Christopher Allan Mohr

A method of determining ripeness of a growing mushroom involves obtaining a sequence of images of a growing mushroom over a period of time and, from the sequence of images, measuring one or more features of the growing mushroom to obtain temporal measurements for the one or more features. The temporal measurements indicate rates at which the one or more features are changing. The temporal measurements are compared to pre-determined ripeness functions to determine the ripeness of the mushroom. The mushroom is picked if the comparison indicates that the mushroom is ready to be harvested.

Methods and systems related to mushroom ripeness determination

A harvesting system includes a vertical frame, a plurality of linear robots, a plurality of cameras and a processor. The vertical frame is configured to be positioned opposite a sector to be harvested. The robots are arranged in pairs stacked vertically in the frame, each pair including first and second robots that are configured to move together along a vertical axis, to move independently of one another along a horizontal axis, and have respective first and second robot arms that are configured to approach the sector and harvest fruit. The plurality of cameras is configured to acquire images of the sector. The processor is configured to identify the fruit in the images and control the robots to harvest the fruit.

Robotic fruit harvesting machine with fruit-pair picking and hybrid motorized-pneumatic robot arms

Growing community of inventors

London, Canada

Gideon Avigad