Strawberry-picking robots ease worker shortage during harvest at Tasmanian fruit farm

This robot can pick around four berries a minute, with cameras helping to detect 17 different kinds of defects in the fruit. (ABC Rural: Laurissa Smith)

With years of research behind them, fruit farmers are turning to robots to help with harvest amid a human worker shortage.  

Burlington Berries at Cressy, in northern Tasmania, has shipped out a fleet of 16 robots from the UK to help with picking over the summer.