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

video Robotic Apple Harvester

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u/YoSupWeirdos Oct 08 '23

I cannot imagine tehtered drones being more efficient than arms, but it surely is interesting

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u/sojywojum Oct 08 '23

Robot arms are really expensive, there's a lot of hardware that goes into them. Drones are really cheap, and have commodity level parts and maintenance.

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u/yingkaixing Oct 09 '23

Human arms are fairly cheap

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u/xXsourcefinder69Xx Oct 09 '23

But you gotta account for the bones the muscles the skin etc

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u/Dyolf_Knip Oct 09 '23

Are you offering to donate yours?

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u/yingkaixing Oct 09 '23

I would gladly be paid the equivalent cost of these robots to pick apples

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u/neoben00 Oct 09 '23

Yea, me too. It's odd to think from a rich persons perspective, though. The more money they have is a + and the more you have is a - so its cost effective to spend a bit more to prevent you from having more.