Farmers offer a quarter of a million robot to collect blueberries

American farming company Naturipe Farms , primarily engaged in growing and harvesting berries, organized a competition for all those wishing to build a robot for the collection of the American blueberry. The winner will receive $ 250,000.

American blueberry (view Cyanococcus) - kind of berries sort Vaccinium, which include our blueberries (in America it is called the «European blueberry» or bilberry < / a>). It is blue, because of what is called the blueberry, and its still collected from the bushes by hand .



Fruits of the American blueberry is very delicate, and mature on the bush at a time, so employees have to pass the same bush many times, searching and collecting the ripe berries. Due to the rapidly growing demand for this product and it has been declared a similar competition.

Farmers have developed their wishes on the specifications to be met by automatic possible to collect berries. He should be able to recognize the size and color of the fruit to choose ripe berries, gently pluck the berries with the legs, not to hurt her, automatically put the collected fruit in baskets, work both day and night, to collect about 500 kg of fruit per day, to be able to move on uneven terrain (on a bed) and cost in the production of no more than half a million dollars.

If you are already blinked all possible LEDs using Arduino, and think about how to attach to the case and that useful to do with your desire to assemble the robot - it is a chance for you.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/265042/