As the height of luxury, Meg put out some of her sewing, and then found time hang so heavily, that she fell to snipping and spoiling her clothes in her attempts to furbish them up a la Moffat.
Rather, they cover isolated forms of the genes, which have been identified, snipped from the genome and chemically modified to make them analysable in a laboratory.
Using sensors and cameras, it analyzes each berry's ripeness and programs the movement of a robotic arm to snip the stem without disturbing the plant's less-ripe fruit.