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The advances in robotics makes it look like a humanoid robot that could harvest lettuce is only a decade or two away. Making the robot is the easy part. The cod
by fragmede 3mo ago
The advances in robotics makes it look like a humanoid robot that could harvest lettuce is only a decade or two away. Making the robot is the easy part. The code to drive it has been the hard part. Until now, that is.
- brudgers 3mo agoCalifornia has about 800,000 agricultural laborers and about 400,000 FTE’s. That’s a lot of robots…and they probably won’t be able to drive themselves from field to field.
- fragmede 3mo agoSelf driving cars are here today, driving in city traffic. Self driving a truck from one field to another seems like it would be eminently doable as far as the technology goes. However, I doubt a bunch of humanoid robots is the optimal robot configuration for harvesting lettuce. Tesla made 1.6 million cars in 2025. Toyota made 11 million. If we handwave that a humanoid robot is roughly as hard to manufacture as a car at scale, there's gonna be a lot of robots.