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by swiftcoder 1816 days ago
I'm genuinely confused by this whole pitch. What practical problem does this solve?

Planting seeds in a bed that size is at most an hour or two of work. Raised beds don't suffer from that many weeds, so weeding is a couple of hours per week at most. And drip irrigation with a timer can be had for a few dollars.

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This solves the practical problem of having a single robot that can plant, weed and water a raised bed. Looking through their twitter posts linked on the website, they've good a bunch of happy users .
"having a robot" is not a problem statement
> "having a robot" is not a problem statement

It is if what you want is a robot.