I was out picking blackberries from the hedgerows recently and thought the complexity of the task – a very gentle squeeze to establish the degree of ripeness, together with a visual assessment of the degree of swelling and a bit of tugging or twisting (but not too hard so as to squash it) – would be beyond a robot. But is that just wishful thinking?
Peter Hanson, Whitestone, Exeter
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