A transplanter for fresh cuttings of Artemisia selengensis was designed in order to solve the problem of low productivity and the high intensity of labour during the manual work of sticking. This paper made a brief introduction to the working principles of this transplanter, and the rules of the parting and taking motion were analyzed. A motion model of the fresh cuttings during the process of parting and taking was set up, the equations of locus, velocity and acceleration for a single cutting during the parting and taking processes were derived. It is found that when the velocity of each single cutting is 0.02 m/s and the acceleration of it is 4.6 rad/s2 during the parting process and the maximum angular velocity of each single cutting is 1.9 rad/s,and the maximum angular acceleration of it is 6.6 rad/s2 and the maximum angular velocity of the picker is 2.2 rad/s，and the maximum angular acceleration of it is 14.0 rad/s2 on its way back during the taking process, it can part and take the fresh cuttings effectively, and the variation tendency of locus，velocity and acceleration was analyzed by using MATLAB, which proved the feasibility of the parting and taking function of the transplanter through experiment.