[gen220]

Depending on the crop you’re talking about, we are still very very far away from this.

People have been trying to design machines to pick fruit, even in toy scenarios, for decades, and we have little to show for it. I don’t think that image processing is the bottleneck here, it’s literally the mechanism as far as I understand.

I’m skeptical that any mechanical equipment will ever be able to do these tasks as cheaply, quickly, and efficiently as a human in our lifetimes.

[beckingz]

Look at olive harvesting machines.

Definitely easier than fruit, but we've made so much progress.