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Patent Issued for Robotic system for harvesting and maintaining date palms (USPT O 11910751)
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The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “1. Field “The disclosure of the present patent application relates to robotics for plant husbandry, and particularly to a robotic system for harvesting and maintaining d ate palms. “2. Description of the Related Art. “Traditionally, there are several steps involved in harvesting the fruit from ta ll trees, such as date palm trees. For short, young palms, a sharp flat blade at tached to the end of a steel water pipe is commonly used to cut the fruit. To cu t a fresh fruit bunch, a cutter (person using the blade) accelerates the blade i nto the fresh fruit bunch stalk with an underhanded upward motion. The weight of the water pipe provides enough inertia and stored energy to sever the stalk. Fo r older, taller palms, a sharp blade attached to the end of a long pole is used. The cutter carries the pole upright. It is physically taxing to raise and lower the pole because of its length. When the cutter identifies a ripe fruit, he man euvers the blade around the top of the fresh fruit bunch stalk and cuts it with a vigorous downward pull on the pole. The fruit falls to the ground, and dependi ng on the height, a number of fruitlets will separate from the fresh fruit bunch upon impact. Loose fruit is, by weight, the most valuable part of the harvest.
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