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Apple-picking robot prepares to compete for farm jobs

by Futures Centre, May 18
1 minute read

Google is betting this robot that sucks apples off trees will replace human workers

Roughly $4 billion worth of apples are harvested in the U.S. each year. Startup Abundant Robotics hopes to suck up some of it with a machine that vacuums ripe fruit off the tree. Today apple orchards rely on people to pick their crops.

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