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Is the Robot-Filled Future of Farming a Nightmare or Utopia?

WIREDAug-16-2021, 12:00:00 GMT

Picture this: Colossal, gas-powered autonomous robots bulldoze across acres of homogeneous farmland under a blackened sky that reeks of pollution. The trees have all been chopped down and there are no animals in sight. Pesticides are sprayed in excess because humans no longer tend to the fields. The machines do their jobs--producing massive amounts of food to feed our growing population--but it's not without ecological cost. Or, envision another future: Smaller robots cultivate mosaic plots of many different crops, working around the trees, streams, and wildlife of the natural landscape.

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