Fruit-Picking Robots Powered by K8s: From Sci-Fi to Reality!
Talkat Kubernetes on Edge Day Europe 2023 · on Tuesday, 2023-04-18· at 16:30· Hall 7, Room B | Ground Floor | Europe Complex·
summary
Autonomous fruit‑picking drones run a lightweight Kubernetes stack on each vehicle, managing hundreds of devices from remote Ground Control Stations and Bins, and the system is running in Chile, Italy and the US. Deployments use K3s, flannel, Portworx, Flux, Traefik and Spectro Cloud Palette for centralized cluster profiles and zero‑touch provisioning. Persistent disk uses TPM-based offline encryption with failback A/B OS updates, and the project already scales to hundreds to thousands of drones while keeping remote upgrades reversible and operations local.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:27Tevel's autonomous robots
- 1:24Why use agricultural robots
- 2:23Edge computing challenges
- 4:17Evolution of deployment
- 5:59Kubernetes adoption
- 7:23Robot architecture
- 8:55Spectro Cloud Palette
- 10:26Easy provisioning at the edge
- 13:34Disconnected operations
- 14:27Zero-risk upgrades
- 15:55Edge security and encryption
- 18:01Benefits of the solution
- 19:03Future roadmap
- 21:31Demo and prize giveaway
- 24:50Q&A and conclusion
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