July 13, 2017
JOBS WESTERNERS WON'T DO:
This Is How Robots Will Pick Off Apple Pickers (Jon Markman , 6/28/17, Forbes)
It looks like a giant vacuum cleaner and it's set to disrupt the fruit-harvesting business.Like most startups, Abundant Robotics saw a problem it thought could be solved with technology.So the Hayward, Calif., company built a prototype, got funding from the likes of Alphabet, and started work.The goal was to build a robot capable of picking apples as effectively as humans do.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 13, 2017 8:40 AM