▲ | metalman 7 months ago | |
There is a coming agricultural robot revolution. Already tested are planters and harvesters that work to eliminate weed seeds, while simultanoiuslty planting "benifitial" plants. The planters work like dot matrix printers and each sead is planted in a specific place, for a specific reason. Harvesting is itself indiscriminate, with a "waterfall" air jet "ai" powered seed seperator, collecting each type of seed. This technology, was first pionered, by Debeers,in the 1950's for seperating diamonds and is in widespead use for many sorting jobs. During the growing season, robot weeders and robot "insect preditors" will take care of infestations, while inproving soil fertility by letting benifitial plants,insects, and animals to thrive. These types of agricultural practice will scale, down to family acerages, and of course there are many precision computer controlled devices already imbeded in all of the largest agricultural equipment now. Pestisides can be largly eliminated, yields can be increased, labour can be reduced, quality can be improved. |