Orange? Cloud Design unveils self-propelled orchard operation platform
Recently, the 23rd China Yangling Agricultural High-Tech Achievements Expo (abbreviated as "Agricultural High-Tech Expo"), themed "Implementing New Development Concepts, Accelerating Agricultural Modernization," opened in the Yangling Demonstration Zone of Xianyang City. Hundreds of exhibition delegations from more than 50 countries and regions around the world conducted a five-day modern agriculture display, business exchange and project cooperation. This year's Agricultural High-Tech Expo focused on creating an international exhibition, while other exhibition areas such as makerspaces, forestry ecological construction achievements, and agricultural machinery also presented different highlights. Among them, a "self-propelled orchard operation equipment - Eple AP150" displayed in the agricultural machinery exhibition area was particularly eye-catching.
According to Manager Jiang, the person in charge of the booth, this operation equipment is the country's first self-propelled multifunctional orchard operation platform developed by Orange Hu Design. The platform is suitable for operations in standardized orchards and is a new type of high-end intelligent agricultural machinery equipment.
"It can be widely used for spherical fruits such as apples, pears and peaches, and is especially effective for high-altitude operation conditions such as picking, fruit thinning and bagging. The equipment's maximum operation height is 3.5 m, and its maximum operation width is 4.3 m, which can meet the needs of multi-angle fruit picking. Its field operation speed is 0-4 km/h (about 0.1 m/s), which can meet the speed of ordinary manual picking. The equipment's maximum road travel speed can reach 15 km/h, which can meet the needs of equipment transfer between orchards. In addition, it saves time and labor and can complete automatic conveying, layered fruit packing and transfer work, greatly improving picking efficiency. It is more than 5 times the efficiency of ordinary manual picking." Manager Jiang enthusiastically introduced the equipment's performance to visiting government leaders, manufacturer representatives and farmers through product videos.
Mr. Mou, who was invited to the site, praised this equipment endlessly. Stroking the bright orange paint, he said with emotion: "Actually, I didn't have much hope before. I just thought I'd give it a try. I didn't expect you to really succeed in developing it, and it greatly exceeded my expectations. In my view, this equipment is not inferior to foreign ones at all."
It is worth noting that the equipment's fruit conveyor belt is detachable, and users can assemble it themselves, making it very convenient to drive into picking orchards. Regarding the reason for this design, the senior agricultural machinery R&D engineer at Orange Hu Design said: "At the beginning of designing the orchard operation platform, we compared orchard operation equipment from advanced agricultural machinery countries such as Germany and Italy. Local fruit growers gave us good suggestions. At the same time, combining the geographical characteristics and fruit variety characteristics of large-scale plantations in **, Shaanxi and Gansu, we finally completed the development and market verification of this advanced agricultural machinery." Orange Hu Design is an internet collaborative design service platform focused on technological innovation and product R&D. By gathering expert resources from different regions and industries, it completes product R&D efficiently and with high quality.
It is understood that during prototype testing conducted in Yantai a few weeks ago, this equipment had already attracted strong interest from many fruit growers. Multiple government leaders and agricultural machinery experts visited the site in person to inspect it and gave high praise to the equipment.