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Above you said "it feels like we need to target farms that are hundreds or thousands of acres to justify the engineering investment." That seems like a reason n
by jessaustin 6y ago
Above you said "it feels like we need to target farms that are hundreds or thousands of acres to justify the engineering investment." That seems like a reason not to fund your startup, because farms like that already have chemical weed control and giant corporations that already zealously own their souls. I was trying to encourage you to think smaller. By acre, vegetables are much more valuable than wheat and corn and beans, and there are human labor inputs that robots could replace.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoThe farms we’re looking to target are vegetable farms. They use human labor to weed their crops. The few I’ve spoken to have hundreds or thousands of acres total. They seem eager to get a robot like ours.
- jessaustin 6y agoHaha I might have misread an "or" as an "of". Your robots sound great, a real benefit to humanity.
- TaylorAlexander 6y agoAhh yes hundreds “of” thousands would be huge! Long term, I’d love to automate the entire process. We just have to start somewhere. Weeding seems like a safe place to start, and there’s plenty more work to be found once we get our foot in the door. I’ll tell ya one thing - I love working with robots outside. I mostly work in the office but I love getting out to test the machine. :)