The SWEEPER robot is the first sweet pepper harvesting robot in the world demonstrated in a commercial greenhouse. It is designed to operate in a single stem row cropping system, with a crop having non-clustered fruits and little leaf occlusion.
Source: YouTube
Date: November 9th, 2018
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgjFaYyecE
Discussion
1) Who looses their job because of this robot, and who gains a job?
2) What other applications are very similar to this but in a different field (no pun intended)?
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