Posted on 10/12/2015 6:40:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
From the army of machines that work in Amazon warehouses to automatons that milk cows, the job-taking robots of the future are among us. Now the lettuce in your salad of the future might be grown by robots too. Oh, by “future,” we mean 2017.
That’s the hope of Spread, a company in Kyoto, Japan, that plans to begin constructing the world’s first large-scale lettuce factory next spring. Once it’s fully operational, the entire process of growing a head of lettuce—from seeding to harvest—will be automated and run by robots. The efficiency of machines will enable the factory to produce 80,000 heads of lettuce per day, or 10 million per year, according to a release from to the company.
That sounds ambitious enough, but Spread plans to “expand the scale of production to 500,000 heads of lettuce per day in five years” and hopes to move its distribution to international markets.
Spread also seems to have the farming challenges presented by climate change in mind. Indoor farming can help address “water and food shortages due to extreme weather events accompanied by the increasing global population,” according to the company. Bonus: The new factory will recycle 98 percent of the water it uses.....
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We should be hearing the outcry from the Illegals soon.
Robots doing jobs Americans won’t!
Instead of letting in a bunch of illegals to do farm work, Japan automated it.
Good choice.
We can now end the illegal amnesty argument. You should have seen the future Jeb and Marco. We don’t need a fence, just a bunch of robots on the border.
Just program the robots in “C++/espanol”
Do they have mexican robots that fertilize the fields as they work them so we can still have E-coli outbreaks?
Whatever it is, make it red leaf lettuce and romaine. No iceberg.
A robot won’t drop a deuce in the lettuce patch, either.
From the army of machines that work in Amazon warehouses to automatons that milk cows, the job-taking robots of the future are among us.
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The next thing you know they’ll start using robots to assemble our buggy whips. There is simply no end to it.
Added note: Do we actually think we are somehow going to run out of things that need to be done? I don’t think so. Robots don’t steal our jobs, governments do.
Ha ha ha!!! Good one!
I’ve posted other threads about it in the past. I think I used “farming” as a keyword.
We approach a post-scarcity era where machines provide much that we need, and there is diminished need for labor from a great many humans.
But one shudders to think what will pass for "entertainment". The old "knockout game" may be a foretaste.
[Everything grown would be organic, free of pesticides, weather, and diseases.]
We filled in our indoor swimming pool with 15 truck loads of top soil. Spring can’t come soon enough for me!
Rollerball!
Your observation deserves somber meditation.
I’m series.
Make it Arugula! Have you SEEN the price of arugula lately? :-)
Wait, wouldn’t it be easier to fire up my 3D printer and get fresh lettuce materialized right in the kitchen?
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