How AI Farming Robots Can Fix Agriculture

All across the globe, labor shortages in agriculture are leaving crops untended and spoiling on the ground. Now developers are turning to robots and AI to do the hard labor no one wants to do. Can AI robots revolutionize the way we think about agriculture and labor?

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[everythingisfine]

The robot bug killer is pretty cool. But just installing a bat box, which cost next to nothing, is a free and organic way to manage bugs at night

[RomanMakukhin]

Going from monocultures to permaculture food forests in solidarity economy models can contribute much more efficiently to food security along with biodiversity and climate change.

[nelson]

Wake me up when they make food prices drop.

[ThrockmortonJGildersleeve]

That thumbnail is like The Tinman & The Scarecrow hybrid

[brandongillett]

Don't be fooled when they tell you "we don't plan to replace jobs, just to fill in labor shortages."

Labor shortages lead to higher wages. When robotics reduces labor shortages, it drives the cost of labor down, leading to fewer people wanting the job, leading to more "labor shortages" and more automation to fill it. Eventually all the jobs get replaced, but of course it doesn't START that way.

[RealbotixCorp]

Automation in agriculture is a fascinating frontier! What crops do you think could benefit the most from AI-driven harvesting?

[dadsonworldwide]

Nothing compares to what artificial intellectual property is about to do in agency and institutions that's never had to streamline or innovate over the past 150+ years .
Cutting edge industries that can't survive otherwise like farming where 2% feeds 8 billion only has a few areas for helpers like temporary seasonal labor it still adds up to be a profitable margin if you can fill it .
Its the new jobs of owner operator mainteners that can talk subdivisions into allowing them to move dishes from dishwasher to cabinets that begins to really ad hawk something that's big. The rando helper bot who picks up trash in monotonous tasks that are short lived but can be moved on to next mobile duty elsewhere. Rent a bot services. Temporary bot hiring.

[jackhoward]

Our great engineers have kept crop picking down to 2 % are less for many decades ! Hopefully, they can do away with crop pickers completely soon !

[andrewradford]

Most of these laborious to harvest crops aren't staple foods, they are luxuries that provide little sustenance.

[Nasa_fvr]

We need more advanced Ai civilazation 😊

[StudyWithMe-mhpi]

It seems to be a little be optimistic. Because Moravec's paradox works...

[pukingdragonfly]

Ultimately, even these latest intelligent technologies get to be employed in unskilled, manual settings before reliably outperforming humans on specialized intellectual tasks…

[YellowRambler]

See Runaway movie 1984 staring Tom Selleck, you can see their 1984 version of robotic pest control. Not recommended for family viewing.

[mr.architect]

this will finish just like the vertical farming...

[FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE]

The hat is nice but did he at least put SPF 50 ?

[rookie]

Companies will always just raise prices and say they have to regardless of how cheap and easy it becomes

[jeffjustice]

but what will all the farm workers do? (much wailing and gnashing of teeth) You know that they live to harvest crops and they don't know how to get an ID. (just in case...this is sarcasm)

[Allofussurvived]

Well need AI to help governments pay people that should be paid

[Withnail]

AI farming robots will not fix agriculture.

[blockrunner]

Food/agriculture should not be a business.