[skrebbel]

> 1 - there are no straight lines on a farm.

I'm not sure what you mean, to me this sounds like "everybody knows that birds can't fly". But I might just be totally misunderstanding you.

Do you mean "there are no straight lines on farms near where I live"? Cause, well, half my relatives are farmers and their farms are very much made up of straight lines.

For context, here's a google image search for Dutch potato fields: https://www.google.com/search?q=aardappelveld&source=lnms&tb...

[lelandbatey]

Those rows are "straight" in a way that looks roughly right from up high, or from head height, but you can see the exact problem they're talking about in several of those pictures you linked; farms are "straight" to a few centimeters over a few tens of meters, but they're not "straight" down to sub-single centimeter deviation over 30 meters. And while it may be possible to have _some_ farms operate that way, how does this system interact with places where that won't work? What about places like the Palouse region of Washington, where you'll see farms stretching for tens of kilometers, but they have to do so over rolling hills[1]?

Large, flat, level areas aren't that common, while major-to-minor deviations from flat-and-level are very common. The grandparent comment is I believe rightly asking "how does this 'farm bot' solve the problems of real farms?" I agree, this looks less like a farm-bot and more like a "serious gardener bot", which is a different niche.

[1] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palouse_hills_northe...