Magazine: The Precise Path RG3-(Robotic Lawnmower)

fre ^ | 4th Jan 2009 12:50 | By Rob Jenkins in Industry News on

[Flavius]

In less than a years time you will be able to have one of these amazing mowers on your golf course. This ground breaking technology four years in the making, will no doubt create a stir when they are unleashed at the Golf Industry Show in New Orleans this February. Before that happens Pitchcare Oceania gets the inside scoop with Precise Path's Brian Wheat, VP sales and marketing. Precise Path

recise PThe Precise Path RG3ath designed the RG3 with input from experts and superintendents in the golf course and turf industry, including Dan Gamble, an inventor, former superintendent and turf consultant, Jim Kenney, CEO of the oldest family-owned Toro distributor in the U.S., and Tom Meeks, formerly the U.S. Golf Association’s senior director of rules and competition. In addition to these experts, over 30 superintendents from all across the U.S. were also involved in some capacity.

[Flavius]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CwFwUBhwOw

[muawiyah]

Just thinking of the 11.2 million illegal aliens who'll have to go home, along with their 18.9 million dependents.

That's the risk you take getting into a business that can be replaced with a mindless robot that doesn't need an H1B visa.

[Flavius]

thats why socialism communism has to preserve every job

down with robots

bring back horses

[AFreeBird]

That's the risk you take getting into a business that can be replaced with a mindless robot that doesn't need an H1B visa. to jump over a fence.

Fixed

[denydenydeny]

I'm waiting for the first "community activist" to claim that it's a racist plot against Mexican-Americans.

I'll be first in line for the consumer version, I'll tell you that.

[Flavius]

yeah i imagine

sounds like Paul Revere will be riding a lawn mower this time

[Western Phil]

“The LPS utilizes a combination of ultrasonic and infrared communications technology to precisely locate the position and orientation of the mower on the putting green.”

As a grad student I worked on a prototype robotic system on a farm tractor for an ag engineering professor in the early
60s at the University of Nebraska. The tractor followed a wire and used mostly relays and switches. Maybe this system has more potential or customers.

[McCloud-Strife]

Skynet was unavailable for comment

[AnalogReigns]

I’ve never understood why they haven’t developed dwarf grasses, which mature and go to seed at 2” tall.

Somewhere in the Briggs and Stratton vaults are the seeds, purchased at an astronomical price from Scotts....