Harvest by hand
A worker harvests grape bunches with HARPOON during the normal harvest, cutting the peduncle as usual.
// HARPOON · HUMAN-OPERATED TOOL
HARPOON
The tool that teaches the AI.
HARPOON is a custom hand-held instrument — smart scissors. A person uses it to harvest grapes, just like normal shears. While they work, HARPOON captures every cut with 3D vision and inertial sensors, and those recordings build the dataset used to train the harvesting AI.
HARPOON is already being used in the field today, and data collection accelerates once the pre-seed team is full time. Plan: build 5 HARPOONs and collect approximately 500,000 recorded cuts — the largest dataset of grape cutting in pergola vineyards.
// WHAT HARPOON DOES01 02 03
A simple tool with one job: record how people harvest.
Capture every cut
3D vision and inertial sensors record the crop, the tool movement and each cutting action, in real vineyard conditions.
Train the AI
Every recorded cut becomes a training example for the AI behind both harvesting robots — HARVIER in the vineyard and HARVIX in the greenhouse.
// HARPOON IN THE FIELD
The tool at work, and from every angle.
// WHY IT MATTERS
Advantages
- 01Works today — no robot is needed to start collecting data
- 02Real data from real pergola vineyards, not lab simulations
- 03First dataset target: ~500,000 cuts — the largest dataset of its kind
- 04Every cut improves the autonomy of the future harvesting robots
// PART OF THE HARNIX FAMILY
How HARPOON fits in.
HARPOON collects the data, the AI learns from it, and the robots put that knowledge to work: HARVIX harvesting tomatoes in greenhouses — our commercial focus — and HARVIER as the vineyard proof of concept. A mapping drone, HARBEE, is planned to survey fields before harvesting begins.
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