Posted on 08/12/2016 10:48:14 AM PDT by Reeses
In the future, robots will increasingly replace farm workers, using artificial intelligence to plant, grow and harvest our food.
In fact, many farms are already using fleets of robots, which can tend to fruits and veggies more efficiently than a human can.
Here's a look at seven machines that are currently aiding farmers around the world.
1) The Wall-Ye prunes vineyards
2) The BoniRob destroys 120 weeds per minute
3) Abundant Robotics' bot picks one ripe apple per second
4) The Blue River Lettuce Bot thins out lettuce fields
5) The Prospera bot 'sees' dying plants before farmers can
6) The Hornet drone measures the health of crops from above
7) The Rover keeps cattle in line
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
this type of thing is all over Japan.
They had miniaturised radio controlled helicopters over every right field 15 years ago.
Throw out all the Mexicans, we don’t need them.
they are a brake on Innovation and they like fluorescent Jesus figurines.
What they don’t tell you is the up-and-down stream opportunities opened up by new technology. Always happens. Always has, always will, despite the constant presence of the nay-sayers.
These are the droids we’re looking for.
You better make sure the OFF button stops those things cold, once they go haywire and start damaging crops.
I’ve herd cattle, but I never understood what they said.
The reduction of manpower in agriculture has been going on since the industrial revolution and has been key to our prosperity. If you think being able to eat until you are full and have the energy to do other productive things then be glad that this trend continues.
This is the type of automation that should be welcomed. Farm work, particularly for fruits and vegetables and especially grapes and berries, is very detailed and boring and also seasonal. Migrant labor is just not a good way for anyone to earn money and its elimination would solve several problems.
And, we by now know that so called cheap labor has deleterious long term consequences ....
Neve substitute labor for capital ....
Just the beginning. When these kinds of things happen in manufacturing, should we ban these kinds of robots to ‘save jobs’?
A big negative is most workers have been forced from God's country into the city communes where they learn to vote communist. Politics is driven by population density: the more tightly people are packed in the more rules and higher taxes are required, and the less freedoms are allowed. Hopefully self-piloting cars and aircraft and high speed internet will reverse some of that trend.
They say “Moo”. Nothing more.
Yep, we definitely need some robots to pick the grapes and blueberries and strawberries, etc., as well as many other crops still harvested by hand.
Illegal immigration has only hurt innovation and tech in farming. Cheap workers has been used to offset the investment into automation; things are finally changing.
If it knows the difference between a veggie and a weed, I'll take two for the garden.
So it’s true that in Strawberry Fields, nothing is real.
That's what the Amish did long ago and it works for them. Look for more communities, and whole countries, to isolate their economies to protect their way of life from technology. Not everyone can compete in the big leagues. There are different leagues for different people so that anyone that wants to can participate and pursue happiness.
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