Source: YAKIMA HERALD, 2/27/17

Worry over ag labor shortages could be a thing of the past if two engineering firms hit goals to market robotic fruit-picking machines by 2019. The two competing companies — Abundant Robotics Inc. in California and Israel-based FFRobotics — have plans to manufacture and market commercial robotic harvesters sometime in the next 18 to 24 months, representatives told a global audience of fruit growers.

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