[aaron695]

Sorry, but I think this is nonsense.

Robots are incredible more efficient and energy saving than humans.

Do you really thing a human would use less energy driving a car/tractor than a robot?

Robots never lose attention, are very easy to measure their performance and are incredibly accurate.

And I'm not sure why humans would use less fertilizer/pesticides than robots?

If you have a system that works better, then tell the robot and it will do it.

Or are we tilling by hand and introducing all the work place deaths this introduces? Farmers die at a high rate, I don't think it's that noble in it's old form.

[CuriouslyC]

For simple, monotonous tasks, robots are indeed far superior to humans.

For more complex tasks that involve flexibility and high level pattern recognition, humans as so far above robots on a work/watt basis it is silly. We have been developed by millions of years of evolution as efficient foragers.

Of course, if you take the complexity and pattern recognition out of farming you make it amenable to machines. An unfortunate side effect of this is that the farming practice becomes unsustainable.

[beat]

Robots can do repetitive tasks in tightly constrained conditions faster and more accurately than a human. But anything that involves incomplete/inaccurate data, wildly varying conditions, and most importantly, decision making is best left to humans.

That's why computers run code, and humans write code.