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Fruit picking robots and drones, similar to the fruit picking machine in the Solarpunk chobani commercial, now exist (www.youtube.com)
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The chobani ad fruit picking machine, for comparison: https://youtu.be/UqJJktxCY9U?t=46

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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

My concern with these is that they will be sent to pick the Amazon rainforest, and since AI is so accurate, they will leave behind not a single individual of whatever they get sent to pick. With human collecters you at least had them miss a small percemtage, leaving potential for regrowth.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    As long as the machine has a clearly given hard qouta "leave x amount on tree" you avoid that. Honestyly I would be more concerned for the workers that would lose their jobs.

    Yes Ideally we want the machines doing the manual labor tasks but in this economy and current far right farm labors are under threat of genocide

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