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Recently, the production of heavy fruit and vegetables has been decreasing in Japan because strenuous labor is require to harvest them. A robot would allow them to be harvested more easily. We have developed the robot “STORK” to harvest watermelons. STORK has a low mass and a long working range. The position accuracy and repeatability of the manipulator, the required vacuum, and the allowance for position error of the vacuum pad were tested.
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Umeda, M., Kubota, S. & Iida, M. Development of “STORK”, a watermelon-harvesting robot. Artif Life Robotics 3, 143–147 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481130
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02481130