My ears though. I think I have tinnitus now.

Impressive tech! Seems like it may be a while before wide adoption, humans would outpace that like 10-1.

Would be interesting to see the economic break down of drones v humans!

Haha I know I tried to decrease sound to maximum. The noise must be unbearable if you’re sitting next to it.

Moves at about half the rate of a person:

https://nocamels.com/2022/09/flying-robots-pick-fruit-24-7-and-know-exactly-when-its-ripe/

So it would take two of these to replace one person, might be more like a year or two away from this being genuinely viable

I didn’t read the article, but wow I’m surprised it’s that fast because it seems rather slow in the video. But just the fact that it’s close says to me that this is inevitable

I'm sorry I should have been clearer, by one I mean one vehicle, which is like 6 or 8 of those individual little flying guys, which are incredibly slow on an individual basis. But you're right, not much longer until almost the entire agricultural process is automated (and still prob only a few years before we can grow fruits in a lab to scale, making this entire process obsolete lol)

another company that is looking to do things with 6 axis arms on a motorized gantry is Advanced Farm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=517YM6J4U2Y

Is this what the Andor Torture Device plays while wearing the headphones?

I think this might be more of an assistive tech than something thats going to be automating an entire orchard. Drones, even ones that can move a payload as minuscule as an apple are very energy intensive machines, and by extension more expensive to use than human labor.

The problem is that they are dropping apples. That will make them rot quickly, thus they won't be suitable for sale to supermarkets, they could only be used for things were apple itself is consumed, like making juice.

Yeah it seems like a lot more energy expended per fruit and I'll bet humans do many many more times that, and with better quality control. But give it a few more year's...

Lol. At about 10 seconds in, the system sticks one of its fingers through the strawberry and then pretend to grab it afterwards. Who releases something like that as a promo video?

I guess I will have a UberEat Drone delivery at my window of fresh fruits picked 10minutes lol