Robo-Fruit

ROBO-FRUIT TO ENSURE THE SAFTEY OF FRUITS

“We have conducted comparative tests, and our filling provided much more accurate data and simulated the behavior of a real piece of fruit much more reliably at different temperatures, The improvement here is that these can be made cheaply and en masse. They’ll cost around $50 each and can of course be reused, unlike fruit. Empa is currently testing its spy fruit “at Agroscope in Wädenswil.”

These little robo-fruits are the solution. They’re molded to the exact shape of the fruit itself, and the material they’re made of is customized to be the average density of the fruit, as well. That means they’ll act just like one when it comes to settling in their box, warming and cooling and so on.

On the long journey from the fruit plantation to the retailer's shelf, fruits can quickly perish. In particular, the refrigeration inside the cargo containers is not always guaranteed and existing methods for measuring the temperature are not sufficiently reliable. A sensor developed at Empa solves this problem. It looks like a piece of fruit and acts like a piece of fruit – but is actually a spy.THESE ROBO-FRUITS WERE MADE BY A SWISS R&D FIRM EMPA.