The progress of the robotic pruner: Field tests continue and the software improves, but more investment from the industry is needed before the US prototype robotic pruner becomes more broadly available. Michael S. Lasky reported on the latest for WineBusiness Monthly.

摘要

BACK IN November 2012, there was a lot of coverage of the initial field trials of Vision Robotics' prototype robotic pruner in Creston, California. It was clear at this early stage that more work needed to be done to have sales-worthy units availablewithin 18 to 24 months.Because of the ambitious mission of the robotic vine pruner, with its complex amalgam of hardware and software, incremental system improvements have been inevitable. Nevertheless, Vision Robotics' aim of pruning by machine with the same quality as hand pruning, and at half the cost, remains on target, if not as timely as originally predicted.