Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.
Minister Yashwant Sinha energized the business community by presenting a fairly bullish budget on Feb. 27, software was among a handful of sectors whose share prices were hitting the stratosphere.