Stalker was reading about a new agricultural robot that picks flowers “like something out of Tess of the d'Urbervilles.”
A team at Falmouth University in Cornwall have developed Daffy, a machine reminiscent of a fairground claw arm that moves at about 0.1 metres per second.
It was created to help pick daffodils. Penzance-based Varell Farms issued an urgent call for expertise to help develop a prototype robot picker due to labour shortages.
Students on the MSc Entrepreneurship course met with AI specialists, coders, web developers, robotics students and gamers to work on the robot.
It all sounds reminiscent of the plukrobot of yesteryear.
