Robots (with friggin lasers!) are taking our jobs!

[The Heretic]

Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers

Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.

www.freethink.com

And they can have them. I hated pulling weeds. I hated pulling trees (from a nursery, to be sorted). It is back breaking work.

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[Alexx1401]

Guess we will no longer need those people who do jobs Americans will not take?

 

[The Heretic]

Guess we will no longer need those people who do jobs Americans will not take?

There are still a lot of manual jobs for them to do. Orchards still need to be pruned by hand. Many fruits and veggie crops need to be harvested by hand. Most tractors are still driven by humans (the huge farms are starting to adopt autonomous tractors and harvesters). When I go into town to get groceries I drive thru a lot of farm country that I grew up in (and past my family's farm - that we no longer own) - most of the workers are hispanic and I would assume many, especially those working in harvesting, are migrant labor.

 

[Certaindeaf]

Farming robot kills 200,000 weeds per hour with lasers

Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeder is a smart farming robot that identifies weeds and then kills them using high-power lasers.

www.freethink.com

And they can have them. I hated pulling weeds. I hated pulling trees (from a nursery, to be sorted). It is back breaking work.

I just swapped my camo for clown so I'm good.

 

[Flopsweat]

Nobody tell the sharks with frikin' laser beams attached to their heads.

 

[CountryGent]

Cool tech. It will be interesting to see what other automation comes about.