It's very funny that it's a humanoid robot and not some kind of god awful techno-centipede with fifteen pairs of arms harvesting whole sections of rows at once or something.
Anthropomorphic robots are such a failure of imagination. I understand the real world advantages but if you're going to dream dream weird.
Combine harvesters are also designed to harvest wheat varieties that have been bred to be harvested with a combine and dependant on synthetic fertilizers and that require all biodiversity in the area to disappear. More nutritious and environmentally friendly wheat varieties have existed for most of human history, along with the knowledge to cultivate them and not deplete the soil or destroy the soil microflora, but they can't be harvested mechanically, so they're disappearing. Developing robots that enhance the action of humans (not replace them) is better in my opinion than forcing the loss of food biodiversity to fit one method of harvesting.
You could have like an autonomous mini-combine-harvester and that would still beat the fuck out of the human robot here. And like every other example I can think of.
Anthropomorphic robots can go anywhere humans can go, operate human tools, and vice versa. At least in theory you can dump a bunch of human shaped robots in to a warehouse or whatever and program them and they'll be able to navigate, interact with the tools, etc.
Just put the entire field on a 50 mile long looping conveyor belt that slowly inches toward a huge stationary harvester machine that perpetually harvests, tills, and replants.
It's very funny that it's a humanoid robot and not some kind of god awful techno-centipede with fifteen pairs of arms harvesting whole sections of rows at once or something.
Anthropomorphic robots are such a failure of imagination. I understand the real world advantages but if you're going to dream dream weird.
I read that anthroporphism in servant robots is something rich technocrats push because its a another way to own and command people.
if it's not human-shaped how will I feel like a feudal lord watching subordinate wretches work for me?
this is the kind of thinking we want under future socialism, we will take brutalism to whole new lengths chuds could never imagine on their own
You don't even need to imagine some kind of god awful techno-centipede, combine harvesters exist and can already be programmed to follow gps routes.
Combine harvesters are also designed to harvest wheat varieties that have been bred to be harvested with a combine and dependant on synthetic fertilizers and that require all biodiversity in the area to disappear. More nutritious and environmentally friendly wheat varieties have existed for most of human history, along with the knowledge to cultivate them and not deplete the soil or destroy the soil microflora, but they can't be harvested mechanically, so they're disappearing. Developing robots that enhance the action of humans (not replace them) is better in my opinion than forcing the loss of food biodiversity to fit one method of harvesting.
what's the real world advantages of antropomorphic design? Genuinely asking, best I can come up with is niche SAR Robot
Infrastructure already made for humanoids so you don't need to change it.
You could have like an autonomous mini-combine-harvester and that would still beat the fuck out of the human robot here. And like every other example I can think of.
Anthropomorphic robots can go anywhere humans can go, operate human tools, and vice versa. At least in theory you can dump a bunch of human shaped robots in to a warehouse or whatever and program them and they'll be able to navigate, interact with the tools, etc.
Just put the entire field on a 50 mile long looping conveyor belt that slowly inches toward a huge stationary harvester machine that perpetually harvests, tills, and replants.