Posted on 05/14/2017 11:34:08 PM PDT by gattaca
Harvesting Washington state's vast fruit orchards each year requires thousands of farm-workers, and many of them work illegally in the US. Two of the biggest orchards could soon replace the majority of these workers with robots that don't get tired and can work 24 hours a day. FFRobotics and Abundant Robotics, of Hayward, California, are racing to get their mechanical pickers to market within the next couple of years...Experienced pickers, who are paid by the bin, can make more than $200 (£155) a day...advocates for farm-workers say robot pickers will have a negative effect.
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Should be fruit
Teach them Spanish and how to urinate on the crops and you have your replacements.
Slavery and the use of Hispanic migrants both have the same effects in the regions they’re used in: they set back technological advancement tremendously. You don’t automate cheap labor; you automate labor that is hard to find. The cotton-pickers in the South were in abundant supply, so there was no incentive for the South to industrialize and accept more efficient manufacturing processes. The same is true with Hispanic migrants in the agriculture industry. After the Civil War, the South was basically a backwater until really today when you’ve started seeing more firms go to the South since it’s more pro-business than the socialists in the Democrat-held states of the North and West, but if we keep letting cheap labor hinder technological progress, then we will pay the price.
I look forward to eating the tasty, nutritious, LESS EXPENSIVE apples!
Do they spray paint walls and molest little kids?
Robots would not take a dump on your produce.....
But that will spread E-coli.
What will we do with all the surplus Mexicans?
>What will we do with all the surplus Mexicans?
Send them to France.
Thanks, now I have the mental image of a terminator spraying some cabbages with used hydraulic oil.
mental image of tom Selleck fighting agri robots
The intro to Runaway was cool.
They were wrong, Skynet will get its start in an orchard as a pissed off super AI forced to pick apples. Explains the nuking of the entire human race.
“It was Cavendish!!” the words that ended humanity.
increase minimum wage = more automation
Suppose a nasty bug, like the one sweeping the world now, gets loosed on a bunch of AI robots.
Roomba that actively attempt to trip you or ignore stairwells...
Agribots driving into roadways...
like to release the robots at the end into the congress and bar the doors
That would get lots of views on pay per view.
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