| It said that the capital to do this was $200,000 -- what was the inventory of robots required to accomplish this. What will it take to have a small fleet of robots to manage small farms - but many small farms. What if a community of gardens and farms were dispersed around a neighborhood/small town - and the town shared the use of the autonomous robots wherever possible. Which robots are common to all farms and which robots are specific to a given crop? Also, the downplay the robot-management tasks (refueling, recharging, interceding in really bad weather to tell the robots "that'll do robot, no farming today" sort of stuff) An open library of farm robots, the tasks they can do, their cost options, how much crop area /number of farms/acres they can manage, if they can multi-task between activities specific to tomatoes in one farm and corn in another etc... That would be interesting data. Then couple that with the open source civilization plans - and update those to make those items more intelligent for efficiencies in their designed tasks. In 100 years, if we can get an atmosphere on mars, we just send a fully automated pre-colonizing farm fleet to prep our invasion. |