The Tevel Flying Autonomous Picker is a harvest robot by Tevel. It is currently available through pilot programs. Compatible crops include apples, peaches, plums, stone fruit. It delivers up to 50% labor cost reduction.
Tevel Flying Autonomous Picker
Tevel's Flying Autonomous Picker uses a fleet of tethered UAVs — each carrying a robotic arm and AI vision system — to harvest apples, peaches, plums, and other tree fruit from orchard canopies. Each drone is tethered to a ground unit that supplies continuous power and handles fruit transport, removing the battery-life constraint that limits free-flying harvest drones. The AI vision system evaluates fruit colour, size, and position in real time, picking only ripe fruit and leaving under-ripe fruit to mature further — reducing wastage and the need for multiple passes. Multiple flying units operate from each ground unit simultaneously, enabling meaningful throughput at commercial scale. Tevel is in pilot and early-commercial deployments with orchard operators in Europe, North America, and the Middle East, focusing initially on apple and stone-fruit varieties.
Tevel Flying Autonomous Picker Specifications
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| Power | Tethered (continuous) |
| Status | Pilot and early-commercial deployments |
| Platform | Tethered UAV with robotic arm |
| Detection | AI colour + size ripeness assessment |
| Operation | Multiple UAVs per ground unit |
| Deployment Status | pilot |
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Tevel
Tel Aviv, Israel
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