The Age of Robot Farmers
The New Yorker - Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
Quote:
“It was only at the very end of the eight-second window that the Pitzer wheel dropped down and—in a blur of motion that recalled Doctor Octopus, the Spider-Man villain, attacking one of his victims—the claws grabbed and picked the ripe berries in a fraction of a second”