date:Dec 17, 2019
Japanese high-tech start-up company Inaho has launched an autonomous robotic harvester that picks greenhouse vegetables. It has also begun leasing the machine to an asparagus farmer in Saga Prefecture, southwestern Japan.
According to Inaho, this is the first time that an autonomous harvester robot has hit the market in the country. The firm, based in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo, believes the robot will reduce the labor load on farming families facing a growing worker shor