Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Fruits such as strawberries and grapes, and gre en and yellow vegetables such as asparagus and tomatoes, are delicate and prone to damage as well as have high unit prices, compared with grain such as rice and wheat. Such delicate crops with high unit prices are harvested manually one by one to prevent damage caused to the crops at the time of harvest. Therefore, har vesting, e.g., fruits and green and yellow vegetables, places a large physical b urden on a producer, as compared with, e.g., grain that can be harvested efficie ntly on a large scale by using harvesting machines such as combine harvesters. T he physically demanding harvesting operation involves difficulty in securing lab or force, and therefore tends to place an increased burden on a producer. Thus, crop harvesting systems using a multi-joint robot arm are known.
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