The Slopehelper Fruit Picker, combined with the Slopehelper Base Platform, operates with complete autonomy, eliminating the need for an operator to manage platform driving, supervision, or harvesting control.

With this system, a single operator can oversee the entire plantation, only handling bin loading and unloading using a forklift. Instead of relying on a large seasonal workforce, just one operator per shift (two per 24 hours) is required to manage the entire field’s harvesting process.

This revolutionary automation drastically reduces labor dependency and costs, ensures continuous high-efficiency harvesting, and maximizes productivity with minimal human intervention.

The Fruit Picker is a high-efficiency robotic harvesting instrument designed to replace a team of 8 seasonal workers, significantly reducing labor costs and dependency on human workforce availability.

This system can harvest a full agro bin (approximately 450 kg of 80mm apples) in just 1 hour, ensuring unmatched productivity. While comparing to human labor, it’s crucial to note that the Slopehelper Base Platform requires only 3 hours for recharging. Unlike human workers, Fruit Picker doesn’t take breaks, smoke, eat, or get tired, operating effortlessly 16 out of 24 hours, which no human team can match.

This fully autonomous, high-performance harvesting solution ensures continuous operation, maximum efficiency, and a substantial reduction in harvesting costs, making it an indispensable tool for modern fruit plantations.

The Fruit Picker is an autonomous harvesting system designed for damage-free collection of semi-spherical fruits, including apples, peaches, pears, avocados, oranges, lemons, and more.

Equipped with Computer Vision and six human-hand-like ergonomic robotic manipulators, the system precisely identifies, reaches, and picks fruit with optimal grip and movement control, ensuring a gentle harvesting process that prevents bruising or mechanical damage.

For citrus harvesting, the Fruit Picker features specialized gripping cups that execute a final rotational movement at the detachment stage, mimicking the natural hand-picking process and ensuring a clean, efficient fruit separation from the tree.

This advanced, crop-adaptive technology maximizes harvest quality and efficiency, making it an ideal solution for modern high-density fruit orchards.

The Fruit Picker is designed for versatile harvesting, capable of operating in both super-intensive and conventional intensive plantations. Its advanced Computer Vision, optimized manipulator length, and kinematic design allow it to adapt seamlessly to different orchard structures.

This means fruit growers can implement the robotic system without additional plantation adjustments, enabling effortless integration into current farming practices while maximizing harvesting efficiency.

The Fruit Picker replicates the complex motor functions of the human hand, which requires at least six axes of movement for tasks like harvesting citrus fruits. Such precision is highly complex and can only be achieved through deep integration of advanced electronics and kinematics.

Leveraging 30 years of expertise in defense technology and special telemechanics, our team has developed a unique, highly reliable system using Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) electronics and precision kinematics. The Fruit Picker incorporates nearly 50 axes, controlled by electromechanical actuators and high-performance brushless motors, ensuring seamless operation in rugged field environments.

This cutting-edge robotic system is designed for true field conditions, delivering unmatched accuracy, durability, and efficiency in automated fruit harvesting.

The Fruit Picker, like all Slopehelper Agrosystem instruments, operates exclusively on electromechanical solutions, without relying on hydraulic or pneumatic actuators. Unlike many startup-developed apple-picking prototypes that still use hydraulics or pneumatics, the Slopehelper Fruit Picker is engineered for maximum reliability and energy efficiency.

By eliminating fluid-based systems, this robotic harvester offers:

• Higher durability – No risk of leaks, pressure failures, or maintenance-intensive components.
• Superior energy efficiency – Optimized power consumption, extending operational runtime.
• Precision and control – Smooth, accurate movements that replicate human-like picking actions without mechanical delays.

This robust electromechanical design ensures the Fruit Picker is a fully field-ready, highly efficient, and long-lasting solution for modern fruit harvesting.

The Fruit Picker is specifically designed for stable and precise operation on slippery surfaces. Special actuators dynamically adjust the manipulator frame inclination, ensuring that the robotic arms remain perfectly aligned with the green fence and crop, regardless of terrain conditions.

Additionally, the self-stabilizing cargo platform of the Slopehelper ensures that the agro bin remains in a constant horizontal position, preventing harvested fruit from shifting or sustaining damage due to uneven or slippery terrain.

In fruit harvesting, selective picking is crucial to ensure that only fully ripened, market-ready fruits are collected. Unlike seasonal workers, who may lack consistency and responsibility for plantation quality, the Slopehelper Fruit Picker guarantees 100% accuracy and reliability in its harvesting process.

Equipped with Computer Vision-based color gradation and laser-net size measurement, the system ensures that only fruits meeting the optimal ripeness and size criteria are harvested. This automated selection process allows:

• Maximize profitability by selling only the highest-grade produce.
• Avoid premature harvesting, ensuring fruits reach full market value.
• Enhance overall plantation efficiency, reducing post-harvest sorting efforts.

By combining AI-driven precision and automation, the Slopehelper Fruit Picker revolutionizes orchard management, delivering consistent quality and increased financial returns.

The Slopehelper Grape Picker, combined with the Slopehelper Base Platform, operates with complete autonomy, eliminating the need for an operator to manage platform driving, supervision, or harvesting control.

With this autonomous harvesting system, a single operator can oversee the entire vineyard, only handling agro bin loading and unloading using a forklift.

This revolutionary automation drastically reduces labor dependency and costs, ensures continuous high-efficiency harvesting, and maximizes productivity with minimal human intervention.

The Slopehelper Grape Picker is a high-efficiency robotic harvesting instrument designed to replace a team of 6 seasonal workers, significantly reducing labor costs and dependency on human workforce availability.

The Slopehelper Base Platform requires only 3 hours for recharging. The Grape Picker operates tirelessly for 16 out of 24 hours, without breaks, fatigue, or need for meals, outperforming any human team in terms of continuous operation.

The Slopehelper Grape Picker replicates human-like harvesting precision to ensure grape bunches remain intact and oxidation-free during collection.

The process begins with a general observation camera, which scans the search area to detect grape stems. Once a potential grape bunch is identified, the system initiates a gentle, non-damaging harvesting sequence:

• Finger-basket manipulators carefully open the leaves, providing unobstructed access to the bunch.
• Precision cutting scissors, integrated within the basket, extend to cleanly cut the stem.
• The grape bunch falls naturally into a cushioned tray, preventing impact damage.
• From the tray, the bunch is relocated onto a conveyor and transferred into the agro bin, maintaining its integrity and freshness.

This delicate and controlled harvesting method eliminates mechanical pressure on the grapes, prevents oxidation, and ensures that harvested grape bunches remain in perfect condition for premium-quality wine production.

By eliminating oxidation during harvesting, growers can achieve a dramatic improvement in wine quality, allowing them to elevate their production into the premium segment. The ability to deliver intact, oxidation-free grape bunches ensures that wineries can produce higher-quality wines, including premium and sparkling varieties, which command significantly higher market prices.

This shift not only enhances brand reputation and product value but also leads to a substantial increase in business profitability. With higher-grade wines, vineyards can access more lucrative markets, gain stronger customer loyalty, and achieve better financial returns, making the Slopehelper Grape Picker a key investment in long-term business success.

The Slopehelper Grape Picker, like all Slopehelper Agrosystem instruments, operates exclusively on electromechanical solutions, without relying on hydraulic or pneumatic actuators.

By eliminating fluid-based systems, this robotic harvester offers:

• Higher durability – No risk of leaks, pressure failures, or maintenance-intensive components.
• Superior energy efficiency – Optimized power consumption, extending operational runtime.
• Precision and control – Smooth, accurate movements that replicate human-like picking actions without mechanical delays.

This robust electromechanical design ensures the Grape Picker is a fully field-ready, highly efficient, and long-lasting solution for modern fruit harvesting, delivering the performance and reliability that growers demand.

The Slopehelper Grape Picker is engineered for stable and precise harvesting even on slippery or uneven terrain. Special actuators dynamically adjust the manipulator frame inclination, ensuring that robotic arms stay perfectly aligned with the green fence and crop, regardless of ground conditions.

Additionally, the self-stabilizing cargo platform of the Slopehelper keeps the agro bin in a constant horizontal position, maximizing bin filling efficiency while preventing fruit from shifting or sustaining damage due to terrain irregularities.

This advanced terrain-adaptive system ensures safe, efficient, and damage-free harvesting, maintaining consistent productivity even in challenging field conditions.

When the Slopehelper Grape Picker detects that the agro bin is full, it automatically initiates the bin replacement process to ensure uninterrupted harvesting. Here’s how the process works:

1. Notification & Navigation – The system sends a notification to the operator via the TeroAir application and autonomously travels to the designated download point.
2. Automated Bin Handling – Upon arrival, the distribution system automatically opens and parks aside, allowing a forklift to remove the full bin and load an empty one.
3. Seamless Resumption – After the bin swap, the Grape Picker autonomously returns to the exact location where the bin was detected as full and continues harvesting without delay.

This intelligent automation ensures continuous operation, eliminates the need for manual intervention, and optimizes harvest logistics for maximum efficiency.

The Slopehelper Harvesting Set transforms the Slopehelper Base Platform into a fully functional harvesting and service platform, offering a cost-efficient alternative to purchasing a separate dedicated harvesting machine. This modular system allows growers to maximize the utility of their existing Slopehelper Agrosystem and enhances efficiency, delivering a higher operational performance than conventional standalone harvesting or service platforms. This smart multi-purpose solution ensures that growers can harvest, maintain, and service their plantations with greater flexibility and productivity—all while keeping costs low.

The Slopehelper Harvesting Set is designed with a modular architecture, allowing growers to customize the setup based on specific plantation tasks. Unlike conventional harvesting platforms, which come as fixed, one-purpose machines, the Slopehelper system enables fast and easy attachment installation depending on operational needs.

If a grower is working only with hail net maintenance, they can quickly install just the Upper-Level Shelf without unnecessary components. For pruning operations, there is no need for the Crane or Rear Slip, simplifying the setup and making the machine lighter. This adaptability ensures that the Harvesting Set remains highly efficient, regardless of the task at hand.

While conventional solutions might seem simpler because they do not require attachment installation, they lack the flexibility

of the Slopehelper system. With the ability to modify the platform instantly, the Slopehelper Harvesting Set provides a more efficient, versatile, and user-friendly alternative, ensuring that growers can optimize operations without unnecessary equipment overhead.

Each shelf on the Slopehelper Harvesting Set is designed with full articulation, allowing movement up/down and outside/ inside relative to the row. This flexibility ensures that workers can maintain an optimal ergonomic position, reducing strain and improving efficiency during harvesting, pruning, or maintenance tasks.

By adapting to the natural movement range of workers, the articulated shelves allow for better reach, minimizing unnecessary stretching or repositioning. This worker-friendly design enhances comfort, safety, and overall productivity, making the Slopehelper Harvesting Set superior to conventional, rigid harvesting platforms.

Each shelf on the Slopehelper Harvesting Set is designed with full articulation, allowing movement up/down and outside/inside relative to the row. This flexibility ensures that workers can maintain an optimal ergonomic position, reducing strain and improving efficiency during harvesting, pruning, or maintenance tasks.

By adapting to the natural movement range of workers, the articulated shelves allow for better reach, minimizing unnecessary stretching or repositioning. This worker-friendly design enhances comfort, safety, and overall productivity, making the Slopehelper Harvesting Set superior to conventional, rigid harvesting platforms.

All shelves in the Slopehelper Harvesting Set are designed with built-in safety features, ensuring full compliance with safety regulations while maintaining worker comfort and efficiency. Each worker is surrounded by protective barriers, preventing accidental falls or missteps during operation above ground level.

At the same time, the ergonomic design of the barriers allows unrestricted movement, enabling workers to operate efficiently for extended periods without discomfort. This combination of safety and usability ensures that harvesting, pruning, and maintenance tasks can be performed securely, comfortably, and with maximum efficiency.

During harvesting, ground workers (typically two) collect fruits into a harvesting basket attached to the Portal Crane. Once the basket is full, the crane autonomously lifts and transfers the harvested fruit to the agro bin with just one button press, eliminating manual lifting and reducing worker fatigue.

As the harvesting basket reaches the agro bin, it features an innovative automatic opening mechanism, ensuring a smooth and damage-free fruit transfer without requiring manual intervention. This system streamlines the harvesting process, improving efficiency, speed, and ergonomics, making the Slopehelper Harvesting Set a superior alternative to conventional fruit collection methods.

The Slopehelper Base Platform features a self-stabilizing cargo platform that automatically maintains a horizontal position, ensuring optimal working conditions regardless of terrain inclinations. This unique gravity-stabilized system provides a major advantage over conventional harvesting platforms, which typically only compensate for inclines in the uphill-downhill direction but not sideways inclinations.

Because the harvesting shelves are attached to the stabilized cargo platform, workers can stand and operate comfortably, without experiencing balance issues or discomfort, even on uneven or sloped terrain. Similarly, the agro bin remains level, preventing harvested fruit from shifting, rolling, or sustaining damage due to instability.

This advanced stabilization system ensures maximum safety, efficiency, and ergonomic working conditions, making the Slopehelper Harvesting Set a superior choice for plantations with varied terrain profiles.

The Slopehelper Harvesting Set features a simple and highly reliable unloading system, allowing full agro bins to be easily transferred either onto a trailer or directly onto the ground.

By adjusting the position of the Cargo Platform, a 5-degree inclination enables the agro bin to slide naturally onto the rear slip, eliminating the need for complex mechanical lifting systems. This gravity-assisted unloading method ensures a smooth and effortless transfer, reducing downtime and making the process fast, efficient, and maintenance-free.

This intelligent unloading design provides maximum practicality, making fruit collection and logistics seamless and highly effective without requiring additional specialized equipment.

The Slopehelper Harvesting Set functions as a harvesting platform, efficiently managing the entire agro bin cycle. Before harvesting begins, empty agro bins are placed in the passage, ready for collection.

Using the portal crane, the Slopehelper grabs an empty agro bin and securely positions it on the Cargo Platform. Workers then fill the bin with harvested fruit, and once full, the rear slip system smoothly unloads it back into the passage for collection or transfer to a trailer.

This crane and rear slip bin-handling process eliminates the need for manual lifting or repositioning, reducing worker fatigue and ensuring continuous, uninterrupted harvesting operations. The Slopehelper Harvesting Set provides a seamless, and highly productive alternative to conventional harvesting platforms.