Will Technology End Illegal Immigration Debate With Drones and Robots? OnlineAthens.com
go to original September 16, 2013

Robots Arrive on the Farm, Replace Human Hands (AssociatedPress)

It’s possible that the weapons of choice to combat illegal immigration will turn out to be drones and robots.

We’re not talking about patrolling the borders with Mexico — although, in fact, drones are being tested there. The real breakthrough is in the fields in parts of California where unmanned drones and robots are being deployed. The mission isn’t to find undocumented farm workers; it’s to replace them.

A decade from now the immigration problem that has proved so vexing for lawmakers and pundits will essentially solve itself through technology. Ironically, farmers and scientists aren’t being inspired by political or social considerations; farming is changing out of necessity.

... A firm in Mountain View, Calif., has developed a Lettuce Bot that thins plants in the field 20 to 40 times faster than a human can do it — and the unit works day and night. Its inventor told the San Francisco Chronicle that the robot can thin a 15-acre field, normally a day’s work for 25 people, in less than two hours.

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