Legacy Equipment issued the following announcement on July 13.
Step aside human, I will pull the weeds for you Robots may be on the way to tend to the fields for the jobs no one likes... like pulling weeds!
obots are coming! Fruit and vegetable growers have heard autonomous machines were going to solve their labor woes for at least a decade, but reality has never quite matched expectations. That might be changing; COVID-19 opened a floodgate of investors’ money to develop field and packing robots for the horticulture sector. So many companies are testing and demonstrating machines it’s becoming hard to keep track of them all.
Agriculture has a labor crisis. It’s become increasingly expensive and scarce. So, when the pandemic disrupted the supply of foreign workers, it sent growers flocking to robotics field demonstrations to judge for themselves how long it’ll be until the technology is field-ready. Dozens of farmers attended on-farm demonstrations of Nexus Robotics’ La Chèvre robot in operation in Quebec in 2020. The SUV-sized machine is designed for one of COO Teric Greenan’s least-loved farm jobs, weeding.
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Original source can be found here.
Source: Legacy Equipment
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