OK
First laugh of the week.
Thanks.
PS I did pick apples.
Trees have to be grown on trellises for this to work. There will be apple and tree damage. This will be made up by volume and scale of operation, I guess.
Running the numbers on one of the robots, 4 to 12 arms and 10000 apples per hour, is only about 4 times faster than an illegal. In perfect conditions.
Only practical in large scale operations, it would seem. And you would still need humans to pick the fruit that is more difficult to reach.