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.