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I can't wait to see produce that is organically farmed by robots.

A lot of the food already pretty much is. Modern production tractors and implements have the technology to operate without much human intervention; only really relying on an operator to monitor that all is well with the system. We have robots to milk cows, collect eggs, you name it.

The technology improves each year, but robots are nothing new to agriculture. Farmers started experimenting with this technology as far back as the 80s and it has only become more pervasive since.

It'll be interesting if there will be a new super organic which means nothing artificial involved.

Robots don't have the same fundamental problems as pesticides.

That doesn't mean that marketing types won't try to convince people with more money than sense that hand-harvested produce is somehow superior to robot-harvested produce. Even if nobody believes that BS, some wealthy people will pay more for something just because the knowledge that most people can't afford it makes them feel more exclusive.

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