From HuckFunn: We are just at the very beginning of the age of robots. Drones, self-driving cars and even robots that make robots. Even robots that blow up snipers. Auto manufacturers have been using them for decades but robots will increasingly be replacing many manual labor jobs. They won't demand a wage of $15 per hour, healthcare, paid vacations and transgender bathrooms. Robots won't sue the plant manager and the corporation for sexual harassment or racism. They'll be on the job every day and won't bitch about the working conditions. Here's a robot that picks strawberries.
Via Marketwatch:
If you think using robots in agriculture is too futuristic, think again: They are already assisting with a growing number of back-breaking activities in fields all over the world. For instance, meet SW 6010, the strawberry harvester, made by Spanish company Agrobot.
The way it works is pretty cool. The robot lowers dozens of rows of camera-equipped appendages into the strawberry bed, which shoot around 20 photos per second, scanning fruits. Once a ripe strawberry has been found, the robot picks it. The strawberry is then placed onto a conveyor belt and taken up to be placed in a container. The entire process takes just four seconds.
Not everything is fully automated, though. The only part left for humans, due to the delicate structure of the fruit, is to pack them into containers by hand.