The Sweeper consortium was invited to hold the first live demonstration of its new sweet pepper harvesting robot at the De Tuindershoek greenhouse horticulture firm in IJsselmuiden. The so-called ‘Sweeper robot’ is the world’s first harvesting robot for sweet peppers to be demonstrated in a commercial greenhouse.

First demonstration of new sweet pepper harvesting robot in the greenhouse

The Sweeper consortium was invited to hold the first live demonstration of its new sweet pepper harvesting robot at the De Tuindershoek greenhouse horticulture
The Crux Agribotics cucumber harvesting robot

Crux Agribotics develops cucumber robot with machine learning

Brabant start-up Crux Agribotics has developed the world's first fully automated cucumber harvesting robot. The robot is unique because it also harvests cucumbers deeply
Synthetic colors as the harvesting robot identifies different parts of the plants

Artificial 3D pepper model for harvesting robot

In the European SWEEPER project, efforts are being made to create a sweet pepper harvesting robot. Part of this project is the development of
Sweeper was launched at the beginning of 2015. The goal of this project is to develop a harvesting robot for sweet peppers.

‘A robot has to give you a little something extra.’

Sweeper was launched at the beginning of 2015. The goal of this project is to develop a harvesting robot for sweet peppers. The robot
Waiting for the horticulture robot

Waiting for the horticulture robot

Robots appear to be the best solution to combat the rising cost of labour. After all, they can work 24 hours a day, without