[Discussion] Could ML robotics be used to replace skilled workers? Details inside • r/MachineLearning

First, it depends on how noticeable are the signs and how detectable those are with a sensor. Consider if the disease is noticeable only on the skin of the chicken under the feather you will need to design a system that monitors that as well. Also catching life animals with a robotic arm is not going to be that easy - this is not a conveyor belt where the object has a uniform position and density up to me. In this case, the ML is not the challenge it's the execution of the rest of the engineering. You can pretty much do almost anything as long as you put enough effort and good people in it, however, there will also be questions of whether that effort would be less than the commercial value that you will get out of it.