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This is pretty impressive. If they get good at strawberries and other produce susceptible to bruising, they’ve got it made with a captive audience of farmers who will get a tireless 24x7 robot bringing an end to backbreaking manual labor.

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I've seen people paying twice the minimum wage for the no-skill job of picking vegetables and still seen farms not get enough takers resulting in the food rotting on the fields.

Bring on the robots. People hate that work. Literal backbreaking labour.

I think they're just about there with strawberries! There's a machine called the Berry 5.1 which has shown promising results so far. I recall it was mentioned as part of this story (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/the-age-of-rob...), which provides interesting details on how the nature of farm-work is changing.

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