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Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Looks cool and probably really useful, but I don't know how much sustainable future relies on Monocultures, because of loose of biodiversity, soil etc you know the drill.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I agree with the other commenter. This is step one. One day will be robots that can maintain healthy food forests.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Maybe it could deal with multiple crops grown together eventually.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

for food forests, you just need to add a tool-switching machine similar to how some CNC mills can automatically switch tools.