Development of an end effector for a strawberry-harvesting robot

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 801 PART 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 565-571

  Yamamoto, S ^a   Hayashi, S ^a   Yoshida, H ^a   Kobayashi, K ^a   Shigematsu, K ^a  

^a BRAIN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Elevated substrate culture; End effector; Harvesting; Robot; Strawberry

Indexed keywords

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 71449127782     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/actahortic.2008.801.63     Document Type: Conference Paper

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