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Cauliflower-picking robot

It works like the human hand by squeezing each cauliflower to determine if it is ready for harvesting.

Farmers in Cornwall are testing a machine invented using European funding that picks cauliflowers from the field without bruising them.

It works like the human hand by squeezing each cauliflower to determine if it is ready for harvesting.

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