Seriously...our robot overlords are comming!

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The process involves sending a mechanized scanning unit into orchards and orange groves. Equipped with digital-imaging technology, it creates a three-dimensional map displaying the location, ripeness and quality of fruit. A robotic picker then follows the maps, using its long mechanical arms to carefully pluck the ripe produce.

A prototype was tested last month, but it is still a few years from being ready for widespread commercial use, said Ted Batkin, a grower and president of the citrus board.
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Elsewhere, a team led by wine specialists at California State University, Fresno, is working on an automated picker to further mechanize the wine-grape business.

Growers of low- and mid-grade wine grapes already use mechanical harvesters, but picking and sorting premium grapes still requires a human touch.

The new technology includes a device called a near-infrared spectrometer, which measures the sugar levels and chemical content of grape samples before they are picked, Wample said. The data is then plotted to a global positioning system map, which a mechanical harvester uses to navigate the vineyards and pluck specific bunches at ideal ripeness.
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listen to this

"Because of the immigration issue, migrant workers are becoming a difficult entity to find," Maconachy said. "If growers have a crop that needs to be harvested and there aren't the people to do it, they'll need to find a mechanized way to do it."
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http://www.physorg.com/news108278117.html


in a way this is a good thing since it will make dirty backbreaking jobs obsolete or at least confined to small scale.

the future is soon here fellas!
 
I see this being too expensive to buy/upkeep for it to be practical..
 
what if the wind moves some of the fruit after the picture
 
Tyguy said:
what if the wind moves some of the fruit after the picture
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hmm...probably a sensor that scans the spot where the fruit should be??

they are not that much expensive even for prototypes.
 
jverne said:
hmm...probably a sensor that scans the spot where the fruit should be??

they are not that much expensive even for prototypes.
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you dont know what your talking about. I majored in robot cherry pickers in college, so dont even try that shit


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I don't know, I think Mexicans would be cheaper labor than these machines...
 
they will put mind control serums on the fruits
 
Tyguy said:
you dont know what your talking about. I majored in robot cherry pickers in college, so dont even try that shit


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umm oki...they probably figured something out.
 
Oh yeah, let's leave the machines in charge of the alcohol, that's a good idea...
 
That'd take away so much jobs - my first job was a fruit picker D:
 
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