New picking cart trialled at Apex

Image credit: Ambit Robotics

As part of  the Hort Frontiers project Advancing Horticulture through Protected Cropping Innovation,  Apex Greenhouses in South Australia  has supported the commercial testing of a new smart picking cart. 

The Ambit Robotics picking cart attaches to existing greenhouse picking trolleys, upgrading them with a camera and AI-based vision system. As a picker moves down the row, the on-cart camera instantly grades each tomato truss for ripeness, highlighting only the sale-ready fruit clusters. 

Field trials at the Apex research facility and Mortlock Hydroponics in Victoria have validated the system’s performance and durability in real greenhouse environments.

Read the full article here: Australia: Smart picking cart with real-time tomato grading introduced.

Watch video of the picking cart in action here.