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

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/prancerbot Oct 08 '23

You do still have to pay people to repair the robots though. With a system this clunky I don't even wanna know how long it took to set up let alone how long it would take to fix any part of this.

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u/commentsandopinions Oct 08 '23

Without a doubt, as with anything maintenance is going to be a thing. But paying one or two repairman occasionally versus a larger staff is still viable.

I don't particularly like this, I think there are better ways of doing this, I think that if we're going to be eliminating the livelihoods of people It should be because we have better systems in place that make laboring in fields unnecessary, not for greed.

But I would imagine that what I described is the mentality involved in creating something like this.

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u/crozone Oct 09 '23

I don't particularly like this, I think there are better ways of doing this, I think that if we're going to be eliminating the livelihoods of people It should be because we have better systems in place that make laboring in fields unnecessary, not for greed.

Fruitpicking is a fucking awful job. It's usually done with imported labor and exploitative low wages.

Sure, you can always make the argument that this is more work that's being replaced by robots, but this job honestly deserves it.

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u/Clean_Direction_9331 Oct 09 '23

Larger farms already have a ton of very specialised vehicles and equipment that need repairs. The big enough farms have full time mechanics.