Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans

This doesn't appear to be a product yet.

"Could" doing a lot of lifting here.

It’s a press release for a patent with a lot of “robot arm could…” and “once $THING_THAT_HASNT_HAPPENED happens…”, and the topper:

“Before the robot can be deployed on farms, the computer vision and positioning technologies that would let it find and reach for berries on the plant still need to be developed.”

Keep your long sleeved shirts and overalls handy, because robots are not going to pick your blackberries for you anytime soon.

But it will be cool when they pull it off. I was just pondering the automation of blackberry picking, as they are starting to come on in the PNW, and I tire of getting scratched up.

And is it going to harvest the free blackberries I'm enjoying when I go on a walk?

I don't think so.