[Red Badger]

At least they won't crap and pee on your food...............

[Army Air Corps]

“Sorry, Dave, but I cannot harvest the food for you.”

[gaijin]

Now we need cheap Reapers that home in on and eliminate, eh....SOCCER FANS, shall we say.

[gaijin]

There *IS* NO ATZLAN..!!

[A_Former_Democrat]

Technological innovations and indoor food farms will render lots of these “needed’ immigrants from S. of the border

Meanwhile, the CofC and GOPe weep along with their Dim comrades in arms

[yesthatjallen]

Faster, safer, cheaper, more efficient, I'm all for it.

I saw a youtube video of a prototype robot that picks fruit from trees.

Fewer 'temp. seasonal workers' becoming illegal permanent residents.

[AustinBill]

Agricultural robotics will be a huge growth industry over the next decade, dramatically increasing crop yields, lowering costs, and improving food quality and safety.

This technology was for many years held back by the ready availability of cheap foreign labor, but even without crackdowns on illegal immigration this shift was inevitable.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

This is much less difficult to do then "driverless" cars.

And I would not trust one in my fields with the current level of technology.

[Bayard]

I predict a huge increase in Blood alcohol levels among farmers that monitor boring robot tractors.

This could increase the cost of liver transplants. Trumps fault.

[rigelkentaurus]

So they think they can make driverless cars, but they cannot make a zero-turn driverless mower?? I mow 6 acres and would really like to send the mower out to take care of it while I sit on the porch and watch - even using a handheld device to partially control it would be fine.

Until these kinds of simpler tasks are done right every time, I am not about to risk my life in a computer controlled vehicle at 75 mph - and even then, not likely.

[BeauBo]

The Agro-Roomba. They already have some robots to mow grass - it won’t take a major breakthrough to scale that up to a combine.

Much more selective little bots will be coming to do fine detail work, like weeding, picking off insects with fine water jets, and harvesting tender fruits and vegetables, one at a time.

Resistance is futile. Lazy, expensive, inaccurate, inefficient, weak and stupid humans will be replaced.

[waterhill]

That’s no lie. Adios Amigos

[bigbob]

Deere an Co. has had this technology (and better) for years and owns the largest GPS enhancement network.

http://gpsworld.com/tag/john-deere/

Precision At has many benefits, but oftentimes, farmers like to drive tractors ;-)

[tbw2]

World’s first hands-free farmland in Britain hailed a success
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-09/30/c_136649541.htm