Flying autonomous robots take on orchard fruit picking

A robot's eye view: An artists' impression of how the visualisation algorithms used for Tevel's Flying Autonomous Robots interpret an apple orchard.

Sowing and growing is one thing, but one of the most difficult tasks on any fruit farm is the arduous and often manual task of harvesting the crop.

Israeli-firm Tevel Aerobotics Technologies’ flying autonomous fruit-picking robots could offer just the solution.