Picking the way to a better asparagus future with robotic harvesting

Fruits are picked automatically by a harvesting robot under specific climatic conditions. Machine vision research based on harvesting robots is still in its early stages. The growth of artificial intelligence technology has made it possible to gather and interpret 3D spatial data about the target.

One of the most often used robotic applications in agriculture is harvesting and picking due to the accuracy and speed that robots can achieve to increase yields and decrease waste from crops left in the field.

Agriculture is already highly mechanised and automated. In fact, the sector has decreased to less than 2% of the labor force in the U.S., which is undoubtedly a result of the development of machines. And harvesting is included in that. The machine learning model can sense its environment, form opinions, and respond in another way thanks to data labeling services.

Harvesting Robots Are Making Big Leaps at the Right Time

For the asparagus sector, which now relies mainly on labor-intensive manual plucking of asparagus, robotic harvesting will be a game-changer. It is tough to find individuals to undertake the task because an average picker walks 10 kilometers daily. Access to a commercial robotic harvester will also significantly reduce expenses and ensure that we can keep serving locally grown, fresh asparagus on our plates.

Use automation to reduce your labeling time

It goes without saying that a lot of data is needed in order to create and maintain an effective ML model. However, labeling training data from scratch can take a lot of time, requires professional labeling and review teams, and quickly add up in cost, especially for organizations still working to establish best practices. It can be difficult to effectively accelerate the data tagging process. Automation is helpful in this situation. One of the best methods to quickly produce high-quality data is incorporating automation into your workflow.

Labor accounts for 50% of the cost of growing asparagus. In the 1980s and 1990s, asparagus exports were booming, but because of rising expenses, particularly for labor, exports have nearly completely ceased. Given that farmer returns have been declining, no investments have been made in the future of the sector. Advancing the

project to a commercially available asparagus harvester will help increase grower returns and exports

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