These May Be The Droids Farmers Are Looking For
16th November 2011
When it comes to farm robots, fruit gets all the attention. But it looks like trees and shrubs could win the prize for first significant agricultural market for small mobile robots.
Massachusetts startup Harvest Automation is beta testing a small mobile robot that it’s pitching to nurseries as the solution to their most pressing problem: a volatile labor market.
Cue handwringing from leftists worrying about how illegal immigrants are going to support their families, and insisting that government step in to help at taxpayer expense.