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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-A patent by the inventors Lammers, Kyl e (Grand Rapids, MI, US), Li, Zhaojian (Ann Arbor, MI, US), Lu, Renfu (Okemos, M I, US), filed on March 1, 2021, was published online on August 20, 2024, accordi ng to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspond ents. Patent number 12063889 is assigned to United States Government (Washington, Dist rict of Columbia, United States). The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Worldwide production of apples in 2017 was 83.1 million tonnes, with China accounting for half of the total, and the US account ing for about 5.2 million tonnes. In spite of the massive size of the harvest, m ost apples are still harvested by hand. Locating an individual apple, detaching the apple from atree, and depositing the apple into a collection apparatus with out bruising the apple has proven to be a significant challenge for automated ma chinery designers.
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