Vast majority of illegals arrive seeking the free stuff.
but, but........can they vote.................?????????????????
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I can hardly wait for that addled, ossified senator from Arizona to ask ‘but who’ll pick our lettuce’ again.
I have a robot that mows my lawn. Very easy to set up. Works great. Hard to steal (GPS/alarm).
Paid for itself in a season.
I’ll need an H1B for my Mahindra
The source of our immigration problem is in the White House, not the orchards.
It starts with picking fruit, next thing you know, they're loitering on street corners and raping people.
Of course not, not for Mexicans, because they will build the robot factories in Mexico. And the job losses there won't kick in until they start having robots build the other robots, then we'll all live in that wonderful utopia where we have all been relieved of job lock......................except for serving our robot masters that is.
I can see in the not to distant future when whatever food you eat has never been touched by human hands until you buy it and get it home.
Same will be true of almost every product on the market, but you know what, there will still be multitude of problems.
It may be that just one acre of land properly zoned for agriculture could mean making a fortune by producing the old fashion way, then again global corporate supported gov’t mandated food safety regulation would put an end to such idea’s, getting in the game is already being made intensely costly, difficult and will very soon be impossible for the average Joe.
This decade robots will increasingly venture into the fields, in the 2020’s they will take over completely in the US (except for the Amish, Hippie communes, and a few niches).
There is no avoiding the economics of it. Manual labor jobs are going away entirely within a generation. It will quickly spread over the whole world, as robot costs drop, and capabilities skyrocket.
We have had mechanical harvesters for some crops for over a century, but what is changing are the sensors, decision-making and dexterity of the new generation of machines. They are approaching human task functionality, and will then quickly surpass it.
Cheaper, faster and better are all coming. Things that are now done in the factory, like sorting and quality assurance, will be enabled at the point of picking - leaving the unripe to ripen, and improve yield. Additional processing steps like cleaning, freezing or canning could be pushed forward within minutes or hours of picking to improve quality. And superhuman sensors and testing could be incorporated to ensure the maximum sweetness and food safety.
Consumer prices should drop and quality improve.
You could use your general purpose household robot to farm the back yard, while you sleep or knock back beers...
Labor intensive, seasonal agricultural work is definitely a place where automation is needed.
Now, if we only had a cotton-picking robot and a time machine...
This is kindergarten weeding. There are 120 weed species on my property with 250 natives under lighting conditions so variable no vision system I know can do it. Hell, people can hardly do it by the vegetative attributes necessary in dealing with cleistogamous weeds; I have professional botanists asking me for identifications when they visit. The terrain is rugged and the hazards intense. It's a long way to an electrical outlet.
Try that Dr. Lehnart. Meanwhile, one can train animals to EAT the weeds and leave the cash crop alone. Robots that are good to eat!
I'm getting really tired of misanthropic control freaks with too much money that fund crap like this.
Frankly, our farmers are way behind in automated picking.
Robots: Doing the jobs illegal aliens won’t do.