The company is also developing apple- and orange-picking robots with multiple arms.

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The news cycle largely seems done with the subject, at least for now, but the steady stream of stories about Apple and some ambiguous wrong doing of a non-legal sort is just picking up steam.

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Likewise, Apple can seem to do no wrong, picking up new customers with slick, high-end designs.

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