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This is a good era to revisit fruit walls because if you can make a robot that automatically cultivates and harvests the fruit walls, it makes them a viable urb

This is a good era to revisit fruit walls because if you can make a robot that automatically cultivates and harvests the fruit walls, it makes them a viable urban agriculture option again because the primary issue with them today is the high labor input required.

gmisra 11y ago
The "if you can make a robot" problem for this use-case is quickly becoming "when you can make a robot" that. See, e.g., these (mostly) roboticized lettuce farms: http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050750/this-robot-run-indoor-farm-can-grow-10-million-heads-of-lettuce-a-year http://www.fastcoexist.com/3050750/this-robot-run-indoor-far...