A mobile picking platform system includes a mobile picking platform having a mobile carriage with a superstructure supporting multiple adjustable picking stations. A storage box carrier on the mobile picking platform has a pick position with storage boxes held at optimum heights for access by pickers on the picking stations, an unload position in which full storage boxes are unloaded onto a ground surface, and a load position for receiving empty storage boxes. A storage unit carries empty storage boxes and facilitates transfer of storage boxes to the mobile picking platform. A shuttle trailer may also be included in the system to transfer empty storage boxes to the mobile picking platform and storage unit. The shuttle trailer has a down position in which full storage boxes may be picked up from a ground surface, and an up position for transferring storage boxes to the storage unit or mobile picking platform.

A physically-impaired-assisting multi-function sail comprises: a stanchion, a hoisting navigator for allowing an arthritic to deploy and retract the sail without the need to bend the fingers, a hoisting teeter totter secured to the navigator, a teeter-totter hook-lock secured to the teeter totter for automatically locking and unlocking the teeter totter to deploy and retract the sail, a cable secured to a camber, a cable canal formed into the teeter totter for hiding and protecting the cable within, a pivoting pulley housing secured to the teeter totter, a pivoting pulley hub swingingly attached to the pivoting pulley housing, sail-buttresses hingedly attached to the pivoting pulley hub, a sail canopy secured to the sail-buttresses, multiple cable pulleys rotatably secured at multiple locations within the pivoting pulley housing and pivoting pulley hub, a central tube attached to the pivoting pulley hub, sail-buttress-supporting arms hingedly attached to the sail-buttresses, and a shuttling hub attached to the sail-buttress-supporting arms.

A transportation device for fruit and vegetable picking in a solar greenhouse is provided, which may include a guide rail, a moving mechanism and a picking box. The guide rail is horizontally fixed on side surfaces of multiple supporting columns in the solar greenhouse, an upper side and a lower side of the guide rail are respectively provided with horizontally extended sliding grooves, and a top of the moving mechanism is slidably connected to the guide rail through the sliding grooves, and the picking box is hung at a bottom of the moving mechanism. The transportation device is used to hang the picking box at a bottom of the moving mechanism, so that the moving mechanism can carry the picking box to move along the sliding grooves to transport the picking box to a destination, thereby saving time, saving labor and reducing a labor cost.

A fruit harvesting machine, including a sealed container (12), for collecting fruits, a vacuum pump (13), connected to the sealed container (12), for generating a vacuum in the sealed container (12), a flexible tube (14), connected to the sealed container (12), for drifting therethrough a fruit, a vehicle (28) on which the container a is placed on, a cutting device (27) located at the end (22) of the flexible tube (14), inside the tube, and a ladder (26) installed on the vehicle.

A field cart for using in a crop field having crop beds and furrows includes a base frame assembly having upper frames, lower frames, and connecting frames, which are arranged and connected between the upper frames and lower frames, and two or more wheels rotatably connected to the lower frames. The field cart further includes a chair and at least one tub attached to the upper frames. The chair and the tub are positioned at a same level in the field cart. The level of the chair and tub is higher than the depth of the furrow in the field.

A method of manufacturing and using a five-device-in-one multi-function multi-orientation interchangeable reversible cantilever-stanchion carapace system comprises the steps of: sewing said at least one first three-dimensional-contour-conforming carapace dome panel and said at least one second three-dimensional-contour-conforming carapace dome panel together such that said at least one water-directing-and-ejecting ball-directing-and-ejecting fruit-directing-and-ejecting transverse seam and said at least one water-directing-and-ejecting ball-directing-and-ejecting fruit-directing-and-ejecting cross-cutting seam are formed therebetween for converging rain water therein to repeatedly change the direction of rain water to decelerate the flowing speed of rain water to reduce water splash to avoid damaging irrigated vegetables, for converging harvested fruits therein to repeatedly change the direction of harvested fruits to decelerate the rolling speed of harvested fruits to reduce fruit bruises to avoid throwing away bruised fruits, for converging harvested nuts therein to repeatedly change the direction of harvested nuts to decelerate the rolling speed of harvested nuts to reduce nut bruises to avoid throwing away bruised nuts, for converging catched balls therein to repeatedly change the direction of catched balls to decelerate the rolling speed of catched balls to reduce ball damages to avoid throwing away damaged balls, for directing rain water therealong, for directing harvested fruits therealong, for directing harvested nuts therealong, for directing game balls therealong, for forming a collecting cistern to collect rain water to irrigate garden, for forming a diverting gutter to collect rain water to discharge said rain water away from house balcony and foundation, for forming a collecting device to collect harvested fruits to save labor and time, for forming a collecting device to collect harvested nuts to save labor and time, for forming a collecting device to collect game balls to save labor and time, for forming a tonneau cover for a truck bed, for forming a shade cover, for forming a free-standing projector screen, for forming a hitch-mountable projector screen, and for forming a sports-ball blocking device; attaching said at least one first three-dimensional-contour-conforming carapace dome panel to said interchangeable splines for converging rain water therein, for converging harvested fruits therein, for converging harvested nuts therein, for converging catched balls therein, for guiding rain water down along said carapace-supporting angled arm and down along said multi-height-adjustable carapace stanchion, for guiding fruits down along said cara

A robotic fruit picking system includes an autonomous robot that includes a positioning subsystem that enables autonomous positioning of the robot using a computer vision guidance system. The robot also includes at least one picking arm and at least one picking head, or other type of end effector, mounted on each picking arm to either cut a stem or branch for a specific fruit or bunch of fruits or pluck that fruit or bunch. A computer vision subsystem analyses images of the fruit to be picked or stored and a control subsystem is programmed with or learns picking strategies using machine learning techniques. A quality control (QC) subsystem monitors the quality of fruit and grades that fruit according to size and/or quality. The robot has a storage subsystem for storing fruit in containers for storage or transportation, or in punnets for retail.

A robotic fruit picking system includes an autonomous robot that includes a positioning subsystem that enables autonomous positioning of the robot using a computer vision guidance system. The robot also includes at least one picking arm and at least one picking head, or other type of end effector, mounted on each picking arm to either cut a stem or branch for a specific fruit or bunch of fruits or pluck that fruit or bunch. A computer vision subsystem analyses images of the fruit to be picked or stored and a control subsystem is programmed with or learns picking strategies using machine learning techniques. A quality control (QC) subsystem monitors the quality of fruit and grades that fruit according to size and/or quality. The robot has a storage subsystem for storing fruit in containers for storage or transportation, or in punnets for retail.

A robotic fruit picking system includes an autonomous robot that includes a positioning subsystem that enables autonomous positioning of the robot using a computer vision guidance system. The robot also includes at least one picking arm and at least one picking head, or other type of end effector, mounted on each picking arm to either cut a stem or branch for a specific fruit or bunch of fruits or pluck that fruit or bunch. A computer vision subsystem analyses images of the fruit to be picked or stored and a control subsystem is programmed with or learns picking strategies using machine learning techniques. A quality control (QC) subsystem monitors the quality of fruit and grades that fruit according to size and/or quality. The robot has a storage subsystem for storing fruit in containers for storage or transportation, or in punnets for retail.

Device for conveying picked mushrooms (1), wherein this device comprises several openings (4) into which the mushrooms (1) are placeable, and comprises one or several displacement means configured to move these openings (4) from a picking zone to a removing zone where the mushrooms (1) placed into the openings (4) are removable, wherein this device comprises several conveying modules (5) which each comprise one or several said openings (4), and the displacement means at least comprise a first conveying unit (6a, 6b), (60a, 60b) for moving the conveying modules (5) to an intermediate point, and a second conveying unit (7), which joins to the first conveying unit (6a, 6b), (60a, 60b) at the location of the intermediate point, for moving the conveying modules (5) from the intermediate point to the removing zone.