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Completely agree about flying: but I wonder about the wheel. A spider-carriage walking robot which could step around the valuable plants, climb steeper hills,
by samatman 6y ago
Completely agree about flying: but I wonder about the wheel.
A spider-carriage walking robot which could step around the valuable plants, climb steeper hills, and wouldn't dictate a row-and-plow approach to agriculture, that could be pretty compelling. Less soil compaction, more flexibility, could work inside forested regions as well. It has potential.
- piyh 6y agoIt's not just the robot though, it's the millions or tens of millions of dollars of wheeled or tracked equipment he already has.
- mparlane 6y agoStill easier to harvest if you have the rows though.
- Pokepokalypse 6y agoIMO; I think setting up lightweight aluminum rails, and run a framework of multi-purpose bots along that. Since the technology is getting lighter and lighter, it seems you could even do this and use LESS material than these gargantuan tractor/harvester/combine units. It may not even be necessary to plough fields anymore, when a smaller automated unit could just operate on the least amount of soil necessary for the plant to thrive. Also: no more chemical weed killers. Do this with bugs, and get rid of insecticides as well.