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In Your Orchard, Do You Want Buzzing Suction Drones, OR Dick's Claw Hand Drones?
These drones by Tevel are pretty cool; they use AI to find ripe apples, and then a kind of suction device to "grab" the apple and carry it to the cart.
Fruit farmers' most difficult task is organizing the havest. Tevel's drones select, pick and box only ripe fruits with the help of an AI working day and night
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 27, 2022
[full video: https://t.co/4kgSok9eT9]pic.twitter.com/pfDs2mwDVv
Good eye. Maybe they need a different design for drones with hands. Here’s PKD’s idea.
— Bill Christensen (@Technovelgy) August 28, 2022
Of course, an orchard full of Philip K. Dick-inspired drones may not be everyone’s cup of tea… pic.twitter.com/2Sg8VT8KAF
However, as jens wunderling notes, the drones seem to miss the cart about 90% of the time. Well, maybe orchard owners should wait for version 2.0.
I do like the description of Philip K. Dick's robot tracking device:
On the chest of drawers something was perched. Something that gleamed, shiny metal, gleamed and clicked as it turned toward her. She saw into two glassy mechanical lenses, something with a tubelike body, the size of a child's bat...
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