Green robo-fingers

• Autores: Aviva Rutkin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2974, 2014, pág. 22
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hackney Nursery in northern Florida has just hired its first fleet of robots. The nursery specializes in woody ornamentals and perennials, heavy plants that grow in large tubs across several hundred hectares of land. A typical day at the nursery might require carrying as many as 5000 of these plants around. In the past, this tedious and back-breaking work took four men the better part of a working day. Now, four HV100s--nicknamed Harveys by Harvest Automation, the Boston company that makes them--work just nine hours a day. The robots zip autonomously around the nursery, spacing plants farther apart as they grow and then scooping them back together when it's time for a sale. A person monitors their work.