Agricultural harvesting robot — Orchards
Soft-gripper robots that find and pick ripe produce. Delivered for a orchards client in Kolkata.
- Location
- Kolkata
- Year
- 2023
- Duration
- 31 weeks
- Team
- 5 engineers
- 91%
- pick success
- 4.6
- seconds per fruit
- 1.48%
- damaged produce
The challenge
Conditions on site — heat, dust, vibration and patchy connectivity — had defeated two earlier attempts at this in orchards.
What we built
We owned the whole stack — hardware, firmware, models and dashboards — using ROS 2, YOLO, RealSense so there was one accountable team.
Delivery timeline
Phase 1
Discovery sprint and site survey
Phase 2
Prototype built and tested in the Motera lab
Phase 3
Pilot on site with before/after measurement
Phase 4
Scale-out, training and handover
Highlights
- Documentation, drawings and source handed over at close
- Remote monitoring and over-the-air updates included
- Operator training delivered in Gujarati, Hindi and English
- Safety case reviewed with the client's EHS team
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