Atlas Obscura: Fresh produce, brought to you by robots

Fresh produce, brought to you by robots. The cost of human labor required for indoor hydroponic farms has made their produce infeasibly expensive. Robotics and AI can cut down these costs by 80 percent. More significantly, these farms also use 90 percent less water than outdoor farms, require no arable land and alleviate the need for herbicides and pesticides.

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• August 20, 2019 at 11:45
  in The world these days, Duly noted

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