An automat grafting robot has been developed by NAHEP-CAAST-DFSRDA-VNMKV, Parbhani under Agri-bot division. Which can implement clipping, moving, positioning, cutting, binding, and wrapping rootstock and scion saplings. Experimental results indicate that the grafting success rate of this robot is 87.3% and the binding success rate is 68.9%. Robot is procured from Helper Robotics, Korea.

Semi Automatic Ultra precision Grafting Robot AFGR-800CS

Model Name/No: AFGR-800CS

Features:

Meaning of AFGR-800CS

AF : Adjusting Free, so that very easy to use GR : Grafting Robot for fruit vegetable such as watermelon, cucumber, tomato, etc.

800 : Productivity 800 plants/hr supplied rootstock and scion by 2 persons

CS : Cucurbitaceae[c] like as watermelon, cucumber Solanaceae[s] like as Tomato, eggplant, CS means both available

Grafting machine with necessary cutter headers, grippers consisting of,

  1. Root stock stand for manual root stock supply with adjustment for gap, size and set point.
  2. Scion stock stand for manual scion stock supply with adjustment for gap, size and set point.

Specification for Semi Automatic Grafting robot for grafts fruits and vegetables of the cucurbitaceae and solanaceae.

Robot automatically grafts species that guarantee rich and high-quality harvesting and are strong against diseases

crops Like: watermelon, melon, cucumber, oriental melon, pepper, tomato and others

Productivity : can graft over 700-800 plants per hour.

Digital Camera & Monitor for viewing surface after cutting rootstock and scion for recognisation of outline deviation value from the reference value in stock & scion cuts.

Inbuilt servo motor for rotating the stock & scion for precise grafting.

LCD touch screen for smooth operations Instrument have the facility for adjusting transplant delivery angle, transplant stem cut position, under stock stem cut position, under stock delivery angle & tongs positions.

Complete accessory components: grafting robot + tongs supplying device + air compressor 3 HP Accuracy: more than 95% (uniform stock and scion) Should be supplied with 20,000 Grafting clip which is reusable many times.

Grafting Robot Dimension: 670D×1,080W×950H / 190kgs

Parts Feeder (Clip Supplier) : Dimension (450mm x 450mm x 1,100mm) / 60kg (Net Weight)