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Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously (arstechnica.com)

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[–] Lordbaum@mander.xyz 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Looks cool and probably really useful, but I don't know how much sustainable future relies on Monocultures, because of loose of biodiversity, soil etc you know the drill.

[–] Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I agree with the other commenter. This is step one. One day will be robots that can maintain healthy food forests.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago

Maybe it could deal with multiple crops grown together eventually.

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

for food forests, you just need to add a tool-switching machine similar to how some CNC mills can automatically switch tools.