In terms of the cycle time, the research prototype was not yet able to meet the requirement of 10 s per cucumber.
A single harvest attempt at a fixed harvest position took 65 2 s, which compares well with the cycle time of 64 1 s needed for harvesting eggplant as reported by Hayashi et al. (2001).
In practice, however, it is not a harvest cycle at a fixed robot position that really counts.