Spring is here, and it is time to enjoy West Lake Longjing tea. Usually, we think of workers picking tea leaves by hand. But now some Longjing tea is being picked by metal workers—tea-picking robots!
In a Hangzhou tea garden, a smart tea-picking robot developed by Zhejiang Soi-Tech University sell to work for the first time. “We took thousands of pictures of new tea buds (芽) and fed them to the robot for it to learn. The robot uses an AI model to recognize the buds it needs to pick,” said Professor Chen Jianneng, Party branch secretary (党支部书记) of the research team. This lets the robot find about 90 percent of the right tea buds.
The robot’s arm pulls and then sucks (吸) up the tea buds. These buds are quickly moved ínto a special box. After the robot gathers all the buds from the area it’s working at, it moves the buds from the box to a main box that holds everything it collects.
The robot was made because there are not enough people to pick tea. In Zhejiang, about 400,000 more pickers are needed now. “Picking is the biggest challenge for the development of the tea industry,” said Professor Wu Chuanyu , who leads the research team. “Tea-picking robots are a trend (趋势) of the future,” said Wu. “In about five years, the robots will do the job of picking West Lake Longjing tea instead of people,” Wu added.
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。【小题1】How can the robot tell tea buds from the tea leaves?
| A．Its arms are only shaped for picking tea buds. |
| B．It takes pictures of tea buds and sends them back. |
| C．It has read many pictures of tea buds. |
| A．to grow | B．to find | C．to water |
| A．The robot can find all the right tea buds. |
| B．The robot pick the tea buds by pulling and sucking. |
| C．The robot can grow tea and make tea now. |
| A．picking tea is a big challenge to human workers |
| B．there are too many human pickers |
| C．there are not enough tea pickers |
| A．Not so many people will drink Longjing tea. |
| B．There may be few human pickers five years later. |
| C．Robots can help taste the tea in the near future. |
