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Robots to Help Farmers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-on-to-the-soylent-green-harvesters dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Robots designed to help farmers have been built before, but this time, engineers from the University of Warwick have chosen to develop robots that will reduce farm labor costs. In recent months, they've built a robotic mushroom picker, an inflatable conveyor belt and a grass cutting robot that might also be used by golf course owners."

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  1. Stop the press! by BecomingLumberg · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    How are we going to justify our problem with illegal aliens now?

    Now, before you flamebait me, seriously, the fact that they do crummy jobs is the main argument for why many people think we should be 'nice/fair' to the illegals... you know, so they can suck up our tax dollars.

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    If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.-TJ
  2. Racists by Baldrson · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    The real reason they're making agricultural robots is so they can reduce third world immigration.

    They're a bunch of racists just like the Japanese with their aging population being cared for increasingly by robots rather than low-paid immigrants.

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    Seastead this.