Attendees at last week’s AgRobotics Demo Day, held at the provincial agricultural research station in Simcoe, inspect an autonomous asparagus harvester made by HarvestCorp Technologies, a Canadian robotics company based in Tillsonburg.

A robot that can harvest asparagus part of the ‘next phase’ of farming

by Local Journalism Initiative July 18, 2024

written by Local Journalism Initiative July 18, 2024

Picking asparagus is back-breaking work. Scurrying down the field, knife-wielding workers stoop down to cut the dark green spears shooting out of the ground and scoop them into large totes. A robotics company in Tillsonburg has developed an automated asparagus harvester that reportedly collects up ...

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A robot that can harvest asparagus part of the ‘next phase’ of farming

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