Divyam Kumar

Compliant Robotic Gripper with Integrated Ripeness Sensing for Blackberry Harvesting

Global blackberry demand has been surging due to their antioxidant and nutritional value in a traditional diet. However, blackberries have extreme fragility (resulting in up to 85% of harvest batches sustaining damage) and near-ripe and ripe blackberries are difficult to distinguish in normal lighti…