Not true. Just FYI, new generation small, cheap robotics (think drones etc) are much more scalable than Very Large Machines.
You can, for example, have crop dusting done by a swarm of agricultural drones rather than a crop dusting plane. Or a robot the size of a car trailer that will weed a single row of potatoes or beats with spot spraying of herbicide and / or high voltage localized burning.
If you want I can discuss the changes that must happen to the US agribusiness landscape to allow such a robotics revolution.
The major hurdles to this kind of innovation are political and regulatory, rather than technical.
Not true. Just FYI, new generation small, cheap robotics (think drones etc) are much more scalable than Very Large Machines.
You can, for example, have crop dusting done by a swarm of agricultural drones rather than a crop dusting plane. Or a robot the size of a car trailer that will weed a single row of potatoes or beats with spot spraying of herbicide and / or high voltage localized burning.
If you want I can discuss the changes that must happen to the US agribusiness landscape to allow such a robotics revolution.
The major hurdles to this kind of innovation are political and regulatory, rather than technical.