On May 29, the grand finals of the “Plant Factory Technology Application Competition” were officially launched on the high-tech stage of the 2024 Xiong’an Future City Scenario Expo. In this arena representing the forefront of agricultural technology, Vizum’s cutting-edge agricultural harvesting robot competed against ten top innovations from across the country, each showcasing extraordinary creativity and technical prowess.
As the competition intensified, the atmosphere became increasingly charged. Amidst strong contenders, Vizum’s agricultural harvesting robot stood out with its outstanding performance and forward-thinking design. After multiple rounds of selection and rigorous evaluation, the robot emerged as the winner of the Plant Factory Technology Application Award. This accolade not only affirms Vizum’s strength in agricultural technology, but also serves as high praise for the company’s relentless pursuit of breakthroughs in intelligent agriculture.
About the Competition
The 2024 Xiong’an Future City Scenario Expo featured nine major competitions and 25 sub-categories, including network technologies, plant factories, unmanned farms, near-zero carbon buildings, photovoltaic-storage-direct-flex systems, BeiDou navigation, smart transportation, smart healthcare, and smart education. The competition aims to provide strong technical support for the construction of Xiong’an New Area, driving innovation, collaboration, and industrial development. Through contests, exhibitions, tech transactions, and scenario development, the event attracted innovators and platforms nationwide, helping to incubate and promote the latest technologies and products for application across Hebei Province and the broader national market, advancing the growth of emerging industries.
Key Features of the Vizum Agricultural Harvesting Robot
Vizum’s agricultural harvesting robot is compact, highly integrated, and features one-button startup. It utilizes a four-wheel-drive AGV design combined with visual navigation. With binocular stereo vision technology, the robot can accurately locate the 3D position of fruits and vegetables for intelligent harvesting. Its integrated binocular vision system, developed entirely in-house by Vizum, reconstructs high-precision color 3D point cloud models of produce, providing reliable data for precision harvesting. The robotic arm is equipped with a pressure feedback mechanism to ensure gentle handling of produce, enabling continuous and high-speed harvesting that meets the demands of around-the-clock automated operation.
As an industry-leading smart agricultural solution, the Vizum harvesting robot redefines modern agricultural production with its outstanding product advantages. It combines cutting-edge technologies to ensure high-precision recognition and picking, rapid operational efficiency, and the flexibility and convenience of an all-in-one design. With autonomous path planning and an intelligent obstacle avoidance system, the robot maintains stable operation in complex and dynamic environments. Meanwhile, its innovative voice interaction feature enhances the ease of human-machine collaboration.
The robot’s high efficiency not only significantly improves harvesting speed, but also its adaptability allows it to handle different types and growth stages of fruits and vegetables with ease, ensuring versatility and broad applicability. Most importantly, its flexible design enables it to replicate the gentle and precise motions of an experienced human picker, avoiding the common issue of produce damage seen with traditional mechanical harvesting methods.
By reducing labor costs and improving operational efficiency, Vizum’s agricultural harvesting robot delivers significant economic benefits to farm operators while also driving technological upgrades and transformation across the agricultural sector. Its far-reaching impact lies in elevating the level of intelligence and automation in agricultural production and exploring sustainable models for future farming.