I wonder if there is any crop that can’t be machine harvested, getting rid of most farm labor.
The neoluddites will have their day in the future. Politicians will have a easy vote speaking to the plight of Ned Ludd.
Just wait until it becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. August 29, 1997......
1. Our harvester picked cotton at a speed of 8.8 seconds per boll. If we can decrease this required time to 0.3 seconds and increase the robot’s efficiency to pick at least 90% of the cotton bolls it can reach, it will compete with a mechanical harvester.
Just a 97% improvement and they'll compete with modern harvesters. They are SO close!
2 Great potential for the robot in major cotton-producing countries such as China, India, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, where cotton is currently picked by hand, often by women and children and sometimes under abusive conditions.
Freat, throw all those millions of people out of work. Then they can adopt the USA model of giving everybody lots and lots of FREE MONEY. We have plenty...maybe we can send them some tens of billions that are just lying around.
What percentage of the public would be “triggered” reading your link?
Pictures of cotton should have a trigger warning in the title.
let’s see now: IF they can make a robot pick 29 times faster than the prototype, AND that can make a robot that picks twice as much cotton that’s in its picking range than the prototype, then ONLY FIFTY robots will be needed to replace ONE existing cotton picking combine ... got it ... YEA TECHNOLOGY! ...
About 200 years too late to have prevented our violent crime problem.
But can it sing spirituals and work songs?
Can it sing “The Camptown Ladies”?
For God’s sake paint the robots White!
“Our harvester picked cotton at a speed of 8.8 seconds per boll. If we can decrease this required time to 0.3 seconds and increase the robot’s efficiency to pick at least 90% of the cotton ...”
They have a long way to go to have something useful.