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April 2, 2014

French inventor unveils vineyard-pruning robot

  • At the Precision Farming Expo this week in Oregon there's talk of drones, “smart” irrigation systems, and lasers that chase away birds and deer.
    • By DANA TIMS
    The Oregonian

    CARLTON, Ore. — A shear-wielding contraption billed as the world's first robotic vineyard pruner put on a show to a rapt audience of winemakers and vineyard managers Monday in the hills above Carlton.

    The robot, dubbed Wall-Ye-France by its French inventor, Christophe Millot, moved up and down a long vineyard row, extending its clippered “hand” to make a precise but imaginary cut. (Imaginary because the demonstration vines didn't need any actual pruning.)


     
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