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‘A robot has to give you a little something extra.’
Sweeper was launched at the beginning of 2015. The goal of this project is to develop a harvesting robot for sweet peppers. The robot …
‘Fewer neck and shoulder complaints and always a uniform quality.’
Leo van den Harg, of the potted rose nursery in Vierpolders that bears his name, bought a Rombomatic ten years ago: a combination of …
‘An integrated robot doesn’t need to be more expensive than a conventional machine.’
‘We won’t even begin to consider developing a solution if the pay-back time is longer than three and a half years,’ says Piet Oomen, …
‘The introduction of robots requires industrial thinking.’
Millions of products are grown in the horticulture industry, of which none resembles the other. Not only that, growers tend to harvest their crops …
Waiting for the horticulture robot
Robots appear to be the best solution to combat the rising cost of labour. After all, they can work 24 hours a day, without …