The strawberry-picking robots

Strawberry-picking robots could collect enough fruit to supply tennis-lovers at Wimbledon for one week. The'Rubion' is programmed to only pick'perfect' strawberries, with just 14 machines being able to gather enough to keep the tournament topped up for seven days. Its clasping mechanism, which leaves the fruit bruise-free, picks and packages a strawberry every five seconds, resulting in up to 360kg of the berry a day. Rubion even has a built in'camera' uses sensors to ensure only the ripest fruit makes it through. Strawberry-picking robots could collect enough fruit to supply tennis-lovers at Wimbledon for one week.