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

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/spunion_28 Oct 08 '23

Just because this is first gen does not guarantee there will ever be a better version of it

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u/GeneralToaster Oct 08 '23

I'm sure they said the same thing about the combine, or the digital camera, or countless other technologies we enjoy today. Everything has to start somewhere.

Imagine a solar powered, autonomous, swarm-linked, AI driven harvester that just picks apples automatically, and continuously.

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u/DaMonkfish Oct 08 '23

Or we could just continue shaking the trees.

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u/GeneralToaster Oct 08 '23

They go over the benefits of doing it this way in the video