Autonomous Saffron Harvesting for the Future
We build cable-suspended autonomous robots that use computer vision to precisely harvest saffron during the narrow 2-3 week window. Each delicate flower must be picked by hand at dawn, and our robots glide over fields on cable systems, gently extracting the three crimson stigmas per flower without damaging the petals.
Standing in a saffron field at dawn, watching three cable-suspended robots gliding silently over purple flowers, stopping at each bloom, a delicate arm extending to harvest the three red threads in 1.8 seconds, moving to the next flower as the sun rises—doing the work of 20 skilled harvesters.