Friday October 16 2015  Lorna Sharpe, sub-editor Fruit-picking robot knows how to deal with change This story caught my eye purely because the first time I saw industrial automation in action was in a fruit warehouse, round about 1977. I wasn’t even supposed to be there; I was accompanying a government film crew that had been to film one of my own employer’s innovations and they had arranged to go on to the fruit farm afterwards. I remember being very impressed by the way the machines sized and sorted the apples and packed them in a protective cardboard mesh in … Continue reading E&T news weekly #66 – we choose our favourite engineering and technology news stories from the week