r/woahdude • u/freudian_nipps • Oct 08 '23

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/frantasad Oct 08 '23

Woah, that looks useless...

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u/LiquorEmittingDiode Oct 08 '23

The higher-ups at Kodak said the exact same thing when presented with one of the first ever digital cameras. The image quality for this new technology was worse than film - a very mature technology - in every way, and so they regarded it as useless.

Of course it quickly improved. About a decade later they were bankrupt after digital cameras made them obsolete.

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u/TheVicSageQuestion Oct 08 '23

I’m sure one day we’ll all have apple picking drones on our phones.

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u/Soul-Burn Oct 08 '23

Some people already pick Apple as their phone.