JAPAN-SCIENCE-ROBOT-AGRICULTURE

Japan’s agriculture machinery maker Shibuya Seiki and National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation displays a robot to pick a ripe strawberry for a demonstration at the annual autoID and communication expo in Tokyo on September 25, 2013. The robot, which can gather a piece of fruit every eight seconds, uses three cameras to determine which strawberries are ready to pick before darting out an arm and snipping them into its basket. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO