Posted on 11/10/2013 12:05:18 PM PST by Olog-hai
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has given an award of $1,123,463 to the University of California, Davis to develop “relatively small, inexpensive robots” to aid in harvesting strawberries.
The announcement was made in late October as part of a series of USDA awards “to spur the development and use of robots in American agriculture production,” according to a USDA press release.
The release describes the UC Davis robotics grant as a “project (that) will develop relatively small, inexpensive robots to aid in human harvesting of strawberries.” …
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/johnny
If robots were really the answer, somebody would make one without a government grant.
Less need for undocumented immigrants,
“...evelop “relatively small, inexpensive robots” to aid in harvesting ...”
I thought the purpose of providing illegal aliens to the farm community was to do this.
Whatever it costs it’s worth it.
Compared to the cost of having armies of illegal aliens in the fields of Northern California, and their gang banger anchor babies tearing apart the schools and the streets, it’s nothing.
10 million would be dirt cheap.
Is “robot” the acceptable term the student council at Berkeley came up with to replace “illegal immigrant”?
If the demographics are such that you see that an aging Mexican population will result in fewer illegal aliens in the future, and you can get the government to pay for research that will help you a few years from now then why not?
PS
Jerry Brown killed state funding for this 38 years ago at the insistence of Saint Chavez and the Brown Berets de Aztlan.
That’s why it has to be Federal funding.
God forbid Jerry’s Kids wouldn’t be able to have a job here.
Whatever it costs it’s worth it.
Well, the word “robot” is derived from Czech “robota” (related to Russian “rabota”), which means “to work” (especially forced labor) . . .
You’re all for government spending in this area? What about the private sector?
As the overall number of field laborers has decreased, - agricultural output has gone up. Machines do more work in less time.
You think the illegals come tax free?
Google Watsonville High School and Pajaro Valley Unified School district and check the demography.
Entirely true. The armies of Mexico's poor in the fields is nothing more then make work to feed the Steinbeck imagery in the minds of liberals.
The reality is that the Kalifornia Kommies need them to form a Victim Class to use as a totem. The fact that it's not needed and they would have better lives elsewhere is irrelevant: the idiot children of California can pretend that Tom Joad Lives and the Evil Capitalist Growers must be destroyed by Virtuous Collectivism.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture.
The could’ve hired 100 illegal immigrants to pick strawberries for that
Not to mention that it’s backbreaking work that no one wants to do. Would have to pay much higher than it does to get non-immigrants to do it.
A basket of strawberries really costs $20 when you add in the socialized benefits the farm workers get that the farm owners don't pay for. Take away the huge taxpayer subsidy and the private sector strawberry robots would flourish. Free markets don't succeed when the government funds the competition. It would be great to stop the madness but that's not going to happen. Socialists should do some serious robotics funding because robots are the perfect slaves to fund future socialism.
> What about the private sector?
You think the illegals come tax free?
The majority crtainly get paid tax free because they certainly don’t report it...
The Feds used to to quite a bit of funding at technical academic Depts.
Now most if it seems to be for hermaphroditic tranny fat studies.
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