[hotdog97]

So, I assume everyone else's first thought after reading this was: Let's build a vanilla flower pollination robot using deep learning to process RGB camera images and help guide the robot actuators. Startup, anyone?

Edit: turns out this is, in fact, not a unique thought:

"Implementation of Automated Vanilla Pollination Robotic Crane Prototype, 2017":

https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1109/SYSOSE.2017.79949...

(No deep learning, but I guess these people weren't desperate for funding.)

[metiscus]

I think if you could work a blockchain in there somewhere you might have an idea worth funding. ;)

[azinman2]

Because screw those poor farmers?