Hard to say whether the big ferris wheel approach brings any substantial advantage over automated strawberry operations of two years and three months past:
Burlington Berries at Cressy, in northern Tasmania, has shipped out a fleet of 16 robots from the UK to help with picking over the summer.
The farm trialled its first robot in collaboration with British company Dogtooth Technologies nearly seven years ago.
Dogtooth is a Cambridge-based technology start-up building state-of-the-art intelligent robots for soft fruit pickin
Working closely with UK and Australian growers, we have been developing commercial robotic harvesting solutions since 2016. Our fifth generation robots are available to buy now.
defrost•7mo ago
* First, breed strawberries well suited for "robot" harvesting: $11.5M effort to deliver bot-ready strawberries https://www.horticulture.com.au/hort-innovation/news-events/...
* Grow on tables in polytunnels and automate harvest: Strawberry-picking robots ease worker shortage during harvest at Tasmanian fruit farm https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/fruit-picking-robots-...
Both writeups from Feb/March 2023https://dogtooth.tech/
Innovate UK on Dogtooth (one year ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLt0pogdkU