I asked the founders of one of these agri-robot startups at demo day and they said that leafy greens are just the easiest to automate and so they will start the

I asked the founders of one of these agri-robot startups at demo day and they said that leafy greens are just the easiest to automate and so they will start there. What makes it easy is that they can be grown in a greenhouse rather than outdoors, and the main task that needs to be automated is moving plants from a smaller to a larger container, not the mechanics of picking a fruit off a plant.