Angus the robot could soon be cultivating your salads in a robo-farm

Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He's heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he's strong enough to hoist 800-pound pallets of maturing vegetables and can move them from place to place on his own. Sure, Angus is a robot, but don't hold that against him, even if he looks more like a large tanning bed than C-3PO. Arobotic arm lifts plants being grown at Iron Ox, a robotic indoor farm, in San Carlos, Calif.