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| Tango01 | 31 Aug 2019 10:08 p.m. PST |
"A bowl of salad is a beautiful collection of human ingenuity. The lettuce requires its own specialized agricultural process, as do the tomatoes, as do the garbanzo beans. Then comes the simple act of pulling these ingredients out of the ground, a challenge our dextrous human hands complete with ease. As for robots? Not so much. This is why roboticists are creating crop-specific machines to harvest fruits and veggies. There's the robot that harvests lettuce with a knife made of water. Now comes the apple-picking robot, a metallic farmer that just graduated from R&D and won a job in a New Zealand orchard. Its deployment may be limited at the moment, sure, but it's a glimpse at a future in which hyper-specialized robots help feed our growing species…"
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