Friendly robots an inspiration for crop-picking vision

By Kristian Silva
Updated October 14 2014 - 10:13am, first published October 2 2014 - 12:00am
Queensland school students are teaching pint-sized humanoid robots how to pick cherries. Photo: Supplied
Queensland school students are teaching pint-sized humanoid robots how to pick cherries. Photo: Supplied
Student Eva Wang and QUT lecturer Christopher Lehnert with a robot designed to pick fruit. Photo: Bradley Kanaris
Student Eva Wang and QUT lecturer Christopher Lehnert with a robot designed to pick fruit. Photo: Bradley Kanaris

Programming a knee-high robot to walk up to a plastic tree and pick a "cherry" dangling from a string is harder than it looks.