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The harvest at the T&G Global orchard in New Zealand's Hawkes Bay comes after four years work with US-based technology partner"The robot has computer vision which scans the canopy, identifies fruit suitable for harvest, and uses a sucking method to get the fruit off the tree," said Gary Westwood from T&G Global."We've been doing a lot of measuring with this process and there's been no more damage to the fruit than there has with human pickers.
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