Apple Picker Machine Maniac!

Idea #1

The Apple Sucker

This machine is an animal when it comes to apple picking. His hoover-like suction is like non other. The key here is to have an accordion hose that cushions the apples as they pass through, and gently places them into a basket. The soft cone on the picking side is pliable enough to grab an apple but soft so they wont bruise. 

Idea #2

The Wind Maker

So this machine is a very large and powerful fan that blows the apples off the tree. These apples are caught in a concave net/cushion that gently places apples into baskets.

Idea#3

Robo-bug

These machine-bugs are highly intelligent critters that climb up any apple tree and seek out healthy ripe apples with their sensors. They have a scissor like "nose" that clips the steam of an apple off the tree. There could be a number of these tiny robots on a farm, for fast apple picking.

Idea #4

Appleoctopus 

This machine has many arms to pick apples off trees. At the end of the arm is a farmers glove, to mimic the hand of a farmer and not bruise the precious apples. These pickers also place the apples into baskets to be taken away to markets for consumers.

Idea#5

Apple Shakers

Small but strong robots shake the base of an apple tree, to shake out the apples. A net of some kind shaped in the shape of a bowl catches these apples. This is a quick and fast way to get lots of apples from a tree.