Robot Learns to Pick the Sweetest, Ripest Strawberries

Richard Dudley imagines a world where strawberries grow in perfect rows and every day a robot army tastes their colors before harvesting the ripe ones. No, that isn’t LSD talking. The research scientist at the United Kingdom’s National Physical Laboratory is building a bot that uses multiple wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation to identify the sweetest, ripest fruit — then plucks it from the vine.