Machines have been changing farming since the industrial revolution
Washington Post:
Inside the race to replace farmworkers with robotsI can remember when cotton was picked by hand and when hay was baled in rectangular bundles and then had to be tossed on a trailer to take to a barn. Now hay is rolled into large cylinders and lifted with a fork onto a hay hauling rig. I still remember farmers in rural Alabama who plowed behind a horse. If people can design fruit pickers that are efficient is will make food more affordable and abundant and lessen the need for migrant workers.
Agricultural workers of the future may soon be made of steel. Can a machine pick a strawberry better, faster and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker?
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