The machine, called "Agrobot", is the creation of a research group in Spain headed by Engineer Juan Bravo, who is seen driving the machine in several pictures below.

Rather than futilely attempt to match the profound and unique complexity of the human hand, the principle of the "Agrobot" is instead a construction of visualization technology which guides a rubber lined basket to the red, ripened strawberry fruit and removes it in a lifting motion from the pedicel with a small round razor buttoned to one side of the basket (photo 2 below). The picked fruit is then deposited on a conveyer belt, which carries it up to a worker seated at the front of the "Agrobot" for quality inspection and placement in a container, be it a clamshell, crate or bucket.