• Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    How many people do you think are weeding at a time on a farm? And at what rate?

    This is absolutely scalable. It doesn’t need to be bigger. It’ll just go row by row like every other farm tool :)

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      11 months ago

      Right, but how long will it last before it breaks? If it can only do an acre of crops before part of the mechanism breaks it won’t get adopted by farmers.

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        11 months ago

        How long until your car breaks? These aren’t going to be flimsy machines. What makes you think they would be?

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            11 months ago

            I meant to convey that the machine isn’t going to fail after one acre or any other small amount. It won’t be built out of legos ;)

            And shouldn’t the end-game be to eliminate the need for human labor for these grueling jobs? Even if the first iteration isn’t quite as good, it is important to look to the future.