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I like working in unflashy industries. A robot that can harvest peaches (incredibly hard) or work in semiconductor industry. Lots of robots automating the shit
by fermienrico 6y ago
I like working in unflashy industries. A robot that can harvest peaches (incredibly hard) or work in semiconductor industry. Lots of robots automating the shit out of a very complex process. Toilet roll mills. Anything at 3M.
There is a whole world out there and potentially more fun than trying to invent a 4 legged thing that just looks cool and doesn’t do anything useful.
We need to make it cool to automate clothes manufacturing.
- rexreed 6y agoYES. This is exactly on point. In a top-level comment on this page I posted the same that we need a non-hypey view on robotics and shared a podcast worth listening to on this subject. I find the rosey view of VC on robotics to be completely disconnected with what's happening in industry.
- modeless 6y agoI've always wanted to work on a peach harvesting robot, having grown up on a peach farm. You're right that it's an incredibly hard problem. We actually had an automated peach harvester when I was a kid. It worked by encircling the base of the tree with a huge net and then shaking the tree trunk to make the peaches all fall into the net. It worked poorly and bruised the peaches too much to be used, so it sat and rusted away. A useful peach harvesting robot must pluck each peach individually.