Robotics

Our raspberry fields in Portugal have been a privileged training centre for Fieldwork Robotics since 2021, when the first prototype started working on the harvesting and forecasting of raspberries. Since that day a lot of machine learning was developed and, consequently, many improvements have been achieved. Now, robots can easily identify ready to pick raspberries whilst being programmed to ignore fruit that is still not ready for harvesting.

Robots walk across our polytunnels autonomously, collecting information that can help our agronomists with forecasting and with the identification of potential diseased plants. They can also be using for spraying; the kind of job that, when done by humans, may pose health and safety concerns.