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==Design of an Autonomous Robotic Vehicle and Development of a Suitable Gripper for Harvesting Sensitive Agricultural Products==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1152/paper30.pdf
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In: M. Salampasis, A. Matopoulos (eds.): Proceedings of the International Conference on Information
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