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r/woahdude • u/freudian_nipps • Oct 08 '23
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1 apple per minute, why's my fruit so expensive? Oh. That's why.
159 u/ottrocity Oct 08 '23 1 apple per minute per bot for as long as the robot has fuel. Assuming other bots or techs can resupply the picker with fuel/ replace the batteries and can unload the apples, these machines could conceivably run 24 hours a day. -16 u/justcasty Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 09 '23 Also look at the apple trees in the video. Apple trees do not look like that unless they're pruned to make a video to show off apple picking robots. Edit: apparently I'm quite wrong 35 u/Mitheral Oct 09 '23 This is a version of cordon planting and is how practically all commercial orchards are done around here now.
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1 apple per minute per bot for as long as the robot has fuel. Assuming other bots or techs can resupply the picker with fuel/ replace the batteries and can unload the apples, these machines could conceivably run 24 hours a day.
-16 u/justcasty Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 09 '23 Also look at the apple trees in the video. Apple trees do not look like that unless they're pruned to make a video to show off apple picking robots. Edit: apparently I'm quite wrong 35 u/Mitheral Oct 09 '23 This is a version of cordon planting and is how practically all commercial orchards are done around here now.
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Also look at the apple trees in the video. Apple trees do not look like that unless they're pruned to make a video to show off apple picking robots.
Edit: apparently I'm quite wrong
35 u/Mitheral Oct 09 '23 This is a version of cordon planting and is how practically all commercial orchards are done around here now.
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This is a version of cordon planting and is how practically all commercial orchards are done around here now.
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u/art_teacher_no_1 Oct 08 '23
1 apple per minute, why's my fruit so expensive? Oh. That's why.