Picking at Peak: A New Approach to Farming

Integrating robotic technology into everyday automation and tasks is highly advantageous, with the agriculture industry one of many reaping these benefits. Faced with labor shortages and surmounting environmental challenges, farmers are increasingly utilizing robots to increase efficiencies, reduce operating costs and enable greater precision.

In this episode of the Robot Revolution podcast, Mitch speaks with Duncan Robertson, Founder & CEO of Dogtooth Technologies, a company developing commercial robotic fruit-picking solutions. Armed with storied experience in computer vision and the commercialization of machine learning and technology, Duncan talks with Mitch about developing robotic automation for the agricultural industry. They discuss the issues associated with integrating technology into this segment, the challenges faced, and how it may help to solve the labor shortage problem, along with thoughts on the future of the industry and of robotics in general.