Better than wasting time on self-driving trucks to kill people on streets and highways, technology is finally being applied to an area of great need: Agri-Robots are being developed and some deployed to pick the fruits and vegetables that farmers complain they need illegal criminals to pick for them.
Now here's an area where applying technology to replace human workers would help npt only reduce costs and increase efficiency, but once you have robots in place the argument for temporary work visas as well as demand for illegal immigrant workers drops or is eventually eliminated--all very good things. Once illegals have no jobs to do here, less will stay and less will come.
Robot uses machine learning to harvest Lettuce
Summary: A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers.
Quote:Root AI's robot has mastered the art of picking oblong vegetables as well as oblate shaped berries...
also...picking ripe tomatoes off the vine...
(08-15-2019 09:03 AM)king king Wrote: In before the naysayers - it'll never work, too expensive, no one wants robotic farmers, how's it gonna work in the rain.......ever and anon.
Anyone who thinks its too expensive has never seen those auto-pilot combine harvesters rolling over the Paloose in Washington.
(08-15-2019 09:03 AM)king king Wrote: In before the naysayers - it'll never work, too expensive, no one wants robotic farmers, how's it gonna work in the rain.......ever and anon.
Anyone who thinks its too expensive has never seen those auto-pilot combine harvesters rolling over the Paloose in Washington.
My post was tongue in cheek.
Irony is that me and some partners are in the process of getting 24 million to develop this type of technology.
I don't think prices will come down, once its up, it will be the norm. Maybe it fluctuates a little like oil. I see it being more or less like milk, the US dumps a lot of milk to keep prices high, even if produce is plentiful, a lot will get intentionally wasted to keep the prices where they want it.
(08-15-2019 09:03 AM)king king Wrote: In before the naysayers - it'll never work, too expensive, no one wants robotic farmers, how's it gonna work in the rain.......ever and anon.
Anyone who thinks its too expensive has never seen those auto-pilot combine harvesters rolling over the Paloose in Washington.
My post was tongue in cheek.
Irony is that me and some partners are in the process of getting 24 million to develop this type of technology.
I understood your joke, but its funny because there will be people who will scoff at the expense and technical expertise needed. Much like Bloomberg and his belief that farming is much easier than coding.
(08-20-2020 08:19 AM)Garrettabc Wrote: I don't think prices will come down, once its up, it will be the norm. Maybe it fluctuates a little like oil. I see it being more or less like milk, the US dumps a lot of milk to keep prices high, even if produce is plentiful, a lot will get intentionally wasted to keep the prices where they want it.
It's not the prices as much as it is the illegal border-crossers who do some of the labor. One less reason to coddle folks that don't wait in line and apply to come here legally, and do it on merit, not politics or nepotism or slave labor. But, I do believe that the tech will get better, faster and thus help bring prices down somewhat, and that's a bonus. Plus less tax dollars to illegals and the cities and towns that are illegal sanctuaries.
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Build that wall- AgriRobots to the rescue!
