World's First Robotic Farm To Produce 11 Million Heads of Lettuce Per Year (inhabitat.com)

MikeChino writes: Japanese company SPREAD is preparing to open the world's first robot-controlled farm. The facility is designed to produce 11 million heads of lettuce each year, and it's expected to ship its first crop in Fall 2017. The new 47,300 square feet Vegetable Factory in Kansai Science City will also reduce construction costs by 25 percent and energy demand by 30 percent.

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Re: I welcome our new robotic overlords' produce

[Anonymous Coward]

Lettuce wait and see if this pans out.

Red stone is amazing

[Barlo_Mung_42]

People can do all kinds of cool stuff with it.

Have you visited Graygarden?

[Anonymous Coward]

The whole place is run by robots.

Lettuce isn't food.

[dsmatthews9379]

It is simply a crunchy form of mildly flavoured water.