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The fruits and vegetables you eat may soon be cultivated and processed by an army of drones and robots, some powered by artificial intelligence. In fact, it’s already happening on farms across America.
Hylio, a Houston-based tech company, was granted an exemption from the Federal Aviation Administration in February for a single pilot to operate swarms of heavy drones over farms. Three battery-powered drones, some weighing as much as 400 pounds each, can now be used at one time to spray fertilizer and pesticides on fields of produce. That task is typically handled by farm workers or crop-dusting planes.
Before the FAA decision, deploying this kind of drone swarm would have required a team of licensed operators, which makes the process more complicated and expensive. Using a swarm of three drones at one time, one operator can spray 150 acres every hour.
The report explains that a number of high-tech agricultural tools were on display at the February 2024 World Agriculture Expo in Tulare, California, including an AI-powered robot that gently picked berries with a silicone “hand.”
Developers are predicting that their inventions could be the answer to the labor shortage that’s been impacting the U.S. agricultural industry.
WATCH the video below, which Hylio posted on YouTube last year, demonstrating how the drone works.
Below is another video demonstrating robots picking fruit:
The fruits and vegetables you eat may soon be cultivated and processed by an army of drones and robots, some powered by artificial intelligence. In fact, it’s already happening on farms across America. https://t.co/qvPlmjX1Po
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 19, 2024
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