Human pickers are getting scarce as young people do not want to work in farms and elderly pickers are slowly retiring. This phenomenon is becoming more acute in view of regulatory restrictions on import of temporary labor force from less developed countries.

Moreover, it has been known for years that human pickers, inadvertently, bruise some of the fruit picked due to the picking process (dropping fruit into bags, bumping the bag against ladders, emptying fruits to the bin).
FFRobotics Fresh fruit picker solution combines precise yet simple robotic controls, fast and accurate image processing, and advanced algorithms for picking and distinguishing usable produce and damaged, diseased and unripe fruit. The Harvester will be easily modified to pick different types of fresh fruit, making it useful over multiple harvesting seasons