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The droids that collect fruit in action also in Italy. A technological solution to the problems of employment

What is the solution to the agricultural labor shortage during the harvest season? Importing a few million migrants and then not knowing where to put them and abandoning them to themselves, after having paid them a pittance so that the rich citizen can pay one euro per kg for the apples?

Evidently the solution is another – In Israel there are now several companies that use the Tevel indusreies solution: drones, eight per platform, which analyze the plants with AI and then collect the fruit, apples, avocados or any other for which one is programmed, without the help of the man who, at most, drives the tractor that carries the platform. Even in Italy there are companies that use it, for example here is one that is experimenting with it, and they are no longer prototypes, but working machines

Tevel's system comprises eight drones connected to a platform that uses artificial intelligence and computer vision to analyze the images of the fruit captured by their cameras.

This helps determine not only which fruits are ripe and ready to pick, but also the sugar content and any diseases.

The drones use suction to gently pry the fruit off the branch and place it in a bin, while humans are mostly needed to supervise their operation, Maor noted.

The technology is in use in Israel, the United States, Italy and Chile and works on over 40 different types of apples, peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and pears. The system is completely autonomous, from the decision to pick the fruit or not, to the its color, how to reach it and detach it, so you can pass it several times, in different days, and pick the fruit when it is perfectly ripe, not too unripe.

The solution for jobs "that Italians no longer want to do", simply because they are not paid enough, is to invest in automation, making the farmer's work easier and still keeping costs low. Even in our often fragmented realities, it would be enough to purchase the machinery in the form of a consortium. These are the technologies that should be promoted, not electric cars.

But for many it is easier to make corporals work…


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The article Fruit picking droids in action in Italy too. A technological solution to employment problems comes from Scenari Economici .


This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/i-droidi-che-raccolgono-la-frutta-in-azione-in-israele-una-soluzione-tecnologica-ai-problemi-delloccupazione/ on Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:08:27 +0000.