Pollinator robots in the future for glasshouse growing
Arruga, a company based in Israel, is one of the most advanced makers of robotic pollinators.
If humans rely more on food from greenhouses in the future, pollination robots will probably play a vital role.
They are already being used in tomato greenhouses. Tomato plants are self-pollinating, but help is needed to get the pollen to drop onto the female part of the tomato flower.
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