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Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers
Vicissidude sends us to Wired for a look at a fruit-harvesting robot being developed in California. Its development has been funded entirely by agricultural associations, concerned by the uncertainty surrounding migrant immigrant labor. Quoting: "As if the debate over immigration and guest worker programs wasn't complicated enough, now a couple of robots are rolling into the middle of it. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards plucking oranges, apples or other fruit from the trees. In a few years, troops of these machines could perform the tedious and labor-intensive task of fruit picking that currently employs thousands of migrant workers each season."
Really? How much exactly do these robots cost?
Is it more than about $3 an hour, including maintenance?
And do they reproduce themselves?
Cuz, you've got some strong competition there.
We already have fruit f*cker robots, why not fruit pluckers too.
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It will never work - those robots are huge, they will never make it across the border undetected.
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Nice post. I'm sure that, somewhere, there's a reference to the actual topic, i.e. agricultural labor. I'm just damned if I can find it.
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> Just because some people survive off a horrible job doesn't mean it should continue to exist.
All we need now are robots which can claim benefits and commit crime!
Funny. There's more people here who speak European languages than North American languages. Odd how the Constitution isn't written in Iroquois.
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