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MIT and the Constant Robotic Gardeners

Posted by timothy on from the integrated-growlamps dept.

Singularity Hub writes "MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is pioneering the field of automated farming. During a semester-long experiment, CSAIL's researchers created a laboratory farm: tomato plants in terra cotta pots with artificial turf for grass. The goal of the experiment: to see if these tomatoes could be grown, tended, and harvested by robot caretakers."

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  1. Re:Great idea by phantomcircuit · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No because robots don't have a tendency to wipe their ass with their hand and then not wash. Which the current group of farm labor seem to have a strong propensity for.