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Overview of converting an old lawn tractor to a remotely controlled and immersive drone-like experience. The tractor gets equipped with video cameras, sensors, microcontrollers, wifi, and experimental augmented reality feature. A web interface with a head-up display and a gamepad allows for the control of the tractor from any device.

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With this kind of setup we can finalize outsource our lawn mowing to India ;)

You're laughing but this will probably happen, together with large scale automation. Labor costs are still a significant portion of costs [0, see "Labor Cost Share of Total Gross Revenues"].

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-labor/

When you consider the large # of people who _pay money_ to play Farm/Driving simulators, this might actually be an ideal job for some folks.

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