Science & technology | Robocrop
Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
Automating this delicate task is harder than it seems
|Saffron Walden
Modern farms are increasingly automated—from GPS-controlled combine harvesters to machines that shake apples from trees. One task, though, seems stubbornly resistant to being ceded to robots: picking grapes.
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