World’s first raspberry picking robot cracks the toughest nut: soft fruit

The Guardian ^ | 1 June 2022 | Julia Kollewe

[Cronos]

This is a final frontier.

Picking soft fruit is back breaking, low paid work. If robots can do it, it changes migration patterns and work

[Cronos]

[Nateman]

I , for one, welcome our new robotic overlords !

[Theoria]

[lee martell]

I think that kind of work is still known as Stoop Labor.
My knees and back disqualified me from that kind of work over 30 years ago.

Wait until Joe Biden’s latest Trojan Horse full of all those ‘energetic’ illegal aliens finds out that fruit plucking job they were banking on is quickly being phased out for machines.

There will be Mucho Anger, while my Robots gently beep.

[jimtorr]

I guess migrant labor have priced themselves out of the labor market. I know that a farmer near my house in Oregon plowed his raspberry field under because Mexican labor had become too expensive.

I might have picked raspberries when I was 10, but strawberries were the thing where I lived.

[ptsal]

The food line image.... scary.

[TornadoAlley3]

Always wanted Rosey the Robot.

[null and void]

At least we’ll get soup, and we’ll be happy...

[HYPOCRACY]

Robots don’t crap where they pick.

[Deaf Smith]

The Raspberries of Wrath?

[Arcadian Empire]

You are right, this can have a very real impact.

[Arcadian Empire]

They would be better than the current overlords.

[Cronos]

I’ve picked only in a “pick and take” farm and it is back breaking work. Looking at the declining birth rates globally, this will make sense in 10 years. The problem will be that it is going to be cost effective in 5 years.

[Cronos]

People’s lot in life1 improves. The lady who came in the 80s and 90s to pick fruits, she sent her kids to university in Mexico city and their lot in life improved. Now central Americans come...

[Extra-Ordinary Objectives]

Headline states raspberry, photo shows strawberry = fake news. sarc.

[Extra-Ordinary Objectives]

whoops, forgot to put on my glasses.

[Reno89519]

So, we’ll soon have a solution to Mexicans here and can see a Day Without Mexicans soon?

[21twelve]

Years ago I was working at a vineyard and talked to the guy about his laborers. He said that years ago the white kids would still pick grapes as it didn’t require stooping down or using laters - the fruit was pretty much right in front of you.

But now (well, 10 years ago I suppose) he said that he can only get Mexicans to do the work.

[mylife]

stomp canes with heavy boots, pick berries, enjoy