eh, a tractor requires a shitton of roads, huge open fields and monoculture. robots like this could use the same walking infrastructure that people use. with these, we could plant three sisters type stuff instead of modern monocolture agriculture.
so yeah, it’s goofy but also not quite the same as a combine harvester
I thought I was alone in thinking this. A better model for agriculture and a food system is often not compatible with large machinery like combine harvesters. Doing polyculture and other agroecological models would mean we have to rethink what agricultural automation looks like, with a more human scale.
i dont think modern mechanized farming is compatible with having any kind of biosphere. so unless we stop farming on earth and do it on some magical FREE REAL ESTATE, sustainable farming is more labor intensive, because you simply cant send an omni-sprayer and an omni-chewer across the artificially flattened landscape. or, it will require robots that can walk around muddy tracks and hillsides and fields, pick tomatoes from the vine, carefully prune plants that need pruning, etc. y’know, the really hard stuff to automate.
eh, a tractor requires a shitton of roads, huge open fields and monoculture. robots like this could use the same walking infrastructure that people use. with these, we could plant three sisters type stuff instead of modern monocolture agriculture.
so yeah, it’s goofy but also not quite the same as a combine harvester
I thought I was alone in thinking this. A better model for agriculture and a food system is often not compatible with large machinery like combine harvesters. Doing polyculture and other agroecological models would mean we have to rethink what agricultural automation looks like, with a more human scale.
i dont think modern mechanized farming is compatible with having any kind of biosphere. so unless we stop farming on earth and do it on some magical FREE REAL ESTATE, sustainable farming is more labor intensive, because you simply cant send an omni-sprayer and an omni-chewer across the artificially flattened landscape. or, it will require robots that can walk around muddy tracks and hillsides and fields, pick tomatoes from the vine, carefully prune plants that need pruning, etc. y’know, the really hard stuff to automate.