El doblador fue hecho en Japón.
Posted on 04/08/2006 3:25:10 PM PDT by Reaganesque
April 8, 2006 Robots are on the march again into the last bastion of labour intensive industry - farming and horticulture. Researchers from Warwick HRI (the University of Warwick's horticultural arm), and its manufacturing engineering section, Warwick Manufacturing Group, are working on a suite of robots and automated systems which could transform farming and horticulture over the next decade. One of the best ideas we’ve seen in a long time is this inflatable conveyor belt developed for UK-based agricultural machinery company Aeropick. Due to an ingenious wheeled and inflatable system, up to 100 metres of powered conveyor belt can be deployed within five minutes to aid the agricultural and horticultural harvesting process and offers massive labour cost savings along with significant increases in productivity. As the belt can be set up to variable length of between 25 metres and 100 metres, it is highly adaptable allowing crops to be processed at high speed straight to cool storage, washing, sorting, grading etc Amazingly, there’s also a mushroom picking robot and Robot Grass Cutter too.
The inflatable conveyor system can be driven into an open field or covered growing area on the Brumby VariTrak base vehicle. The Varitrack can vary its wheel spacing from 1 to 1.5 metres to suit crop spacing and has an additional 10KVA of power for processing, cooling, washing, sorting etc. in the field.
The robotic mushroom picker robot uses a charged coupled camera to spot and select only mushrooms of the exact size required for picking achieving levels of accuracy far in excess of human labour. The mushrooms are then picked by a suction cup on the end of a robotic arm. Whilst the speed of picking is currently just over half that of a human - the mushrooms and the robot can be set to pick 24 hours a day right through the night without the need for a break. The researchers also hope to increase the speed of picking to much closer to that of a human worker.
Mowing the lawn is a drudge but for growers, farmers, even golf course owners, with large amounts of grass land it's a massive problem with every tractor requiring a skilled employee to manage such pastures. Researchers in the Warwick Manufacturing Group are developing a new method which can allow a farmer or grower to deploy multiple robotic grass cutting machines at the same time all under the supervision of just a single employee. They are working with the "Ransomes Spider" grass cutting device which can already be remotely controlled and can even mow on 40 degree inclines. They are replacing that remote control with a computer that can use its own data sensors attached to the mower, to autonomously travel across fields working in groups with other robotic mowers ensure that the field is mowed as quickly as possible.
"A new constituency for the dems. takes shape: the robot vote. Look for robot riots demanding rights."
Robots racist!
The more pressure we keep on Mexico, immigration-wise, the more reformers inside of Mexico can be emboldened and empowered to scale back monopolists' abuses down there which keep our own country flooded with economic refugees. Here's an interesting new thread on new legal progress that finally emerged in Mexico I think as a result of immigration reform's failure:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1611677/posts
We can make a difference for our sake, and their's as well. Isn't it the neighborly thing to do?
LOL! If the 3 Laws of Robotics are being followed by their programmers, they'll vote solidly conservative.
Like Bush said, "It's a job American slobs won't do"
LOL... robotophobe! Luddite! Asimovian! Nuts-and-bolts Nazi!
Vault soda robot ad. (Robo hippie hunter)
http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=29994&type=coolad&startrow=1
The new robot rallying cry:
Automatons for Automity
All in the same monotone: Whatdowewant?automity.Whendowewantit?now.
Heh! Maybe with time on their hands, thanks to robotic devices doing the jobs Americans don't want to do ... the hostile invaders of our country may use their time wisely to learn English so that they might progress to better jobs.Nah ... Too much trouble ...
Americans work as garbage men and as miners.
Tough, dirty, and dangerous jobs.
Why don't illegals steal those jobs?
Could it be unions are better than industry or government at policing illegals in the work force ?
I know a little about programming 3-axis mills. I also know how to avoid becoming trapped into that and becoming depended upon. I like working microwave exclusively. Nobody knows what I am doing or where I am, except the chief engineer. I achieved the level of being a ghost. What I work on is high quality radar that nobody else can do. No questions, no pages, no phone calls. Just Laura Ingraham, Rush or Dennis Prager, Sean Hannity or Micheal Medved are with me. And assorted other wildlife.
Bender es hecho en Mexico.
WTF?!?!? For mowing lawns?
El doblador fue hecho en Japón.
Just what we need a bunch of engineers running the country the same way they've been running GM the last few years. Wasn't Jimha Kotter an injuneer? A newclheer one at that.
"Could it be unions are better than industry or government at policing illegals in the work force ?"
In general, yes. Although union leaders are now becoming Aztlan-heads, because some of them are members of those kind of groups. The workers are anti-illegal.
I'm curious where some of these dissolutioned union workers will go. The green party is full of socialists, and the dems are increasingly pro-open border. I doubt many of them will go repub or conservative. We're in odd times. It seems like the wedge is really coming out in the open.
LOL! If the 3 Laws of Robotics are being followed by their programmers, they'll vote solidly conservative.
But don't forget about the 4th Law which states "Robots Always Kill Their Masters".. I learned that one on watching "Twilight Zone". :^)
Robotic techology requires good technicians and good engineering planners and programmers. I'm sure large operations can benefit, if they choose well and there is a competitive need. I wonder how many schools have research in agricultural automation..? If it is up to Liberal schools.. probably not a single one. It would be nice to see a real producer bypassing the establishment and doing it. After all, Apple Computer started in a garage with only an idea. USA Rules!
The foreigners who are coming in by the millions won't be affected anytime soon.
The POTUS says the illegals are doing jobs that Americans won't do.
An American is a 'Citizen of America"
So we have a lot of Americans that are from Mexico, China, VietNam, South Africa etc. These people, according to the POTUS won't do what the illegals will do.
OK so I'm on a roll here.
If we make the illegals 'American' then according to the POTUS they won't do the jobs that they're now doing because they're 'American'.
OR, is the POTUS really being a racist in saying that 'Americans won't do these jobs', is he really saying 'Whites won't do these jobs but Mexicans will' or is he saying that once the illegals become 'American' they won't do those jobs?
Also if the illegals become 'Americans' will they then be required to pay for their health care as they now don't?
When they need to file with the IRS for back years, how many will qualify for the EIC?
Since they've been working for so cheap, how long before they seek reparations?
It just seems to me that there is not really a good solution and it looks like we're heading towards the NWO at a pretty good clip.
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