This doesn't appear to be a product yet.
"Could" doing a lot of lifting here.
It's vaporware structural material.
Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
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Re: Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
#22I would settle for a robot that can kill blackberry bushes. Blackberries cut me so much, every time I go do maintenance on another noxious weed, English ivy which is busy killing all my trees
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#23I'll hold my breath, but this would be fantastic.
We need to automate away the boring/hard jobs.
Re: Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
#24Every time I see these headlines, the tech seems to be at least 10 years away from product. - demos done in a lab controlled environment without the crazy things that happen in a real world. - no humans nearby so none of the safety features that would be needed should this thing work alongside/near humans. - no regards for economics, expensive vision models, expensive hardware, no consideration for maintenance and re…
> no regards for economics
This is the #1 killer every time.
You will always find the most efficient farm machinery to be the least human-like in its design principles. The more it looks like something out of Mad Max the better.
Unless we come up with a machine like the combine harvester for blackberries, no one is going to be interested.
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Re: Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
#26Every time I see these headlines, the tech seems to be at least 10 years away from product. - demos done in a lab controlled environment without the crazy things that happen in a real world. - no humans nearby so none of the safety features that would be needed should this thing work alongside/near humans. - no regards for economics, expensive vision models, expensive hardware, no consideration for maintenance and re…
> no regards for economics This is the #1 killer every time. You will always find the most efficient farm machinery to be the least human-like in its design principles. The more it looks like something out of Mad Max the better. Unless we come up with a machine like the combine harvester for blackberries, no one is going to be interested.
>Unless we come up with a machine like the combine harvester for blackberries, no one is going to be interested.
Good news! https://airharvesters.com/
Clarkson's farm taught me that this is already a thing.
Re: Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
#27Like long haul trucking, only a matter of time until farming is largely autonomous. Companies like Lely, John Deere, and DeLaval pushing far ahead on this stuff.
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#28I would settle for a robot that can kill blackberry bushes. Blackberries cut me so much, every time I go do maintenance on another noxious weed, English ivy which is busy killing all my trees
I’m yet to see ivy kill a tree. I don’t get why people think this happens. It can certainly make them look ugly though.
Re: Robot hand could harvest blackberries better than humans
#29I would settle for a robot that can kill blackberry bushes. Blackberries cut me so much, every time I go do maintenance on another noxious weed, English ivy which is busy killing all my trees
I’m yet to see ivy kill a tree. I don’t get why people think this happens. It can certainly make them look ugly though.
I’ve seen it a bunch of times, but it’s almost always because the accumulated weight and size of the ivy makes the tree fall over in a good storm
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#30But can it harvest blackberries cheaper than humans?
Always the question I ask myself when I see the videos of pakistanis/indians building stuff with a huge workforce when the same are built in North America with very few people and a lot of automation.
We need a new law that merges baumol's cost disease and wright's law.