Iron Ox Is Thinking Way Beyond the Autonomous Electric Tractor With Amazon-Like Robots
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Growing crops hydroponically with robot farmers and visual AI is probably inevitable. Here’s how it works and what the food looks like.
0:00 Iron Ox Robotic Farms
0:28 How Robot Farming Is Different Using Very Little Sunlight
1:07 Floating Rafts For Growing
2:15 Grover The Mobile Farming Robot
3:15 3D Photo Scanning
4:15 Robots Learn From Real Farmers
4:46 Robot Farmers Use Natural Resources Efficiently
5:48 Recycling Resources
6:25 Plants Grown by Robots
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The Netherlands is one of the smallest countries on earth and they are only second to the USA in export of agricultural goods. They use greenhouses. Miles and miles of greenhouses filled with hydroponically grown vegetables. That’s innovation.
Less waste, less fertilizer, no need for pesticides, automated. Work obviously needs to be done to scale, but I am very encouraged by this, and Brian’s reference to other growers/manufacturers with similar focus and ethos. Great job CNET 💪🏻🌱
Why replace a pipe with a robot? Seems like the most expensive and overly complex way you could water.
As a Dutchman it is mindboggling to see how "behind" other countries are when it comes to using greenhouses.
until better technology like this is widescale available, greenhouse production isn't feasible for countries with large populations. The US has 330mil people, we would have to cover a state or two with glass to grow enough until the efficiency is there lol
Because food taste better with dirt .
We just don't need them as much. The US is an enormous land mass that ranges from near Arctic to near tropical. We can grow it all. Outside.
@@TKevinBlanc greenhouse have the advantage of growing produce year round. Why do you think the peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers in the grocery stores always look fresh??
This looks like one of those companies that finds investors to give them millions by demonstrating their impressive technologies. But, everyone ignores the inefficiencies, the cost per unit production, and inability to scale until they file for bankruptcy.
Yeah this looks super inefficient. I interviewed for a job their a couple years back and when I looked at it I was trying to understand how good the technology was. Now when I see this it looks way less efficient then what greenhouses with table systems are using now a days.
Nice idea but it seems to have a lot of wasted space whereas vertical farms make use of that space.
space is less of a precious commodity when growing food
The potential for low to no nitrogen runoff is pleasing. Quite an expensive setup but gives the opportunity to optimise / refine / reduce over time as they learn. Nice.
It seems like it would be more efficient to move the water than the plants.
I think it is the photo analysis along the trip that makes the method. plus less obstructed (plants in the way) piping . Remember, they move the plant to the Sun after the seedling stage. It is a full process, not just a single step thay are looking at.
True, for water. But they are trying to automate the whole process. So the module can be just moved to a different automated stations for different steps(ie, watering, inspection, harvesting, replanting). This is also scalable faster.
They need to 3d scan.
Searching for more sustainable, more productive and more efficient methods of producing food is of course noble and has to be encouraged, but... what's the point of this automation? It seems to me that it doesn't add any advantage beside not paying people for the work and concentrating all incomes to a few. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I hope the ones who engineered this get rewarded. This is awesome!
Recycling of nutrients is incredible. This is very cool! Epcot Center will have to update their display!
This is such a fantastic idea, increasing availability of fresh produce and for a lower cost plus the environmental benefits of this sort of farming. Next step needs to be to automate the delivery and reduce/remove the need for human truck drivers
This is actually a stupid idea. Lower cost? These people literally have tens of millions of dollars in overhead. I grow outside and have zero overhead
@@Tiger-fv3nl growing outside is incredibly inefficient and extremely limited. This sort of agriculture has zero limits, and can be triple or more output. Comparing growing outdoors with this is like comparing telegraph to the internet. Traditional mega farms cost millions a year to operate, require tons of labor, and have severe impacts on the environment; not to mention as the planet is dealing with drought everywhere, we need to be as efficient and as effective as possible. Like coal power plants, traditional farming on a large scale needs to go.
@@mattypants Are you in the farming industry?
It would be great if they could package in a reusable or biodegradable container.
I can grow basil at home. I would be impressed when the grow actual food, wheat and rice.
Imagine in 10 years
Exactly! The sensors are coming down in price. This makes far more sense on a super local basis. Everyone could be walking distance to their fresh leafy greens, and beans.
The business case for all these companies always hinges on rich people paying a premium for the "saving the world" BS. I say BS because the world will not improve with 99% of the population doing anything they can to survive while the 1% look down on them.
@@bernardlebelo742 I am imagining. Corn, Wheat, Rice, and Soy cannot be planted so densely, and their growing season is much longer.
We need more video like this
Very informative! Thanks!
This is great and encouraging! However, reuse of the growing medium (water +) and the confined spaces seems to me like a hazard of plant diseases.
Great reporting. Thank you!
As a home gardener, I love seeing things like this. If y'all can get the energy used to do these kinds of operations carbon neutral I'm all for it.
That’s a very enjoyable video. Future looks great
Great concept.
Can you grow blueberries? I adore blueberries. And black currants are quite the challenging fruit, but a super fruit
Where do I get those nutrients for diy projects?
How can I contribute?
I wonder how much micro-plastics
the plants leech into their system
while grow in those modules?
Could we possibly make modules out of bio-degradable materials or metal comps?
Outside of extraordinary circumstances - e.g.: intense heat, abrasion, caustic liquid - plastic materials don't leech into water.
@@jizzlecizzle1388 metals and reclaimed material would also probably be worse with leaching.
@@jizzlecizzle1388 Thanks for answering, both of you, just wondering then now, how most of the microplastics get into our food? is it in transport, while in plastic packaging...hoefully seaweed 3d printed & otherwise plastics get to take over the packaging industry.
great content thanks
This is a big puzzle in fixing the water crisis in California and other areas.
Using robots decreases the amount of trackers they have to implement considering growing plant takes long time anyway really cool innovation and idea .
This is 100% unsustainable. How much plastic are they using? How many resources does it take to make all of that high tech equipment? Where is the energy coming from for the fertilizer? The lights? A reporter would have done the simple math and had some questions, rather than act like a salesman on the Home Shopping Network.
I love how Brian cares more about humans than robots! ❤
They don't like Pipes do they?
Very cool. Yet they put their ‘efficient crops’ into single use plastic containers 🙄 Let’s see some innovation all the way through the life cycle.
Meanwhile in singapore the same bots are being used to help stack shelves.
Epitome of robot and AI force fit
These are trained currently by farmers bit Will these eventually replace farmers?
“Once we got the system Trained, we don’t need any of you anymore”…
I fail to see the economics of this system.
It seems to replicate a Mgs system or table system.
The robots are a nice touch.
These kinda system are not feasible yet no matter future tech they look , maintaining such systems are very expensive coz its much cheaper to train a person who can do multitude of things with comparison to these single goal machines which require highly salaried employees who can fix these machines or any software issues in them ...... These technologies may be possible in the future but not right now
so you are then arguing that we should not start figuring them out now? I mean how will we ever get to the stage where they work if we don't start somewhere ?
@@Thatsme849 these technologies are used in adjacent technologies like drive by wire, pattern recognition etc they first need to develop there and then be used here ..... This happens everytime, why i am saying this here coz these technologies are cost prohibitive and when these things eventually become cost effective then we should use them ..... There have been many companies like these who promised the world and then bust which will make people sceptical and lead to less investment
This could be scalled for personal use and industrial.
Wow
Its the future, horizontal or vertical🌿
Why they don't move not heavy cameras to plants with water filled pots.
Maybe one day none of us go hungry With the help of technology
lets do this on Mars when we get there.
I hate to say it, but growing pot might make this automated infrastructure explode into reality for other types of crops possible.
Lot of moving parts. Not efficient
Seems more efficient to move the modules than take up land permanently for the plants... Could you explain?
This should be available for residential use.
You can literally buy small hydroponic systems for your home that do work the same way. Water, Nutrients and LED lights on top.
@@oO0Xenos0Oo All the ones I see push users into subscriptions with silly prices on input commodities.
@@skyak4493 You dont have to use these subscription input commodities. Hydroponic is no rocket science, just buy the commodities by yourself for a fraction of the price.
These silicon start ups are about spending a stupid amount of money figuring out problems that we already have a better solution for.
Everything is automatic that the future save space and labor cost
This green house must be losing money.
Yes, the Texas operation went out of business.
With A.I. expanding at an alarming pace...I fear we will be paying reparations to those robots some day.
This is how you grow lots of tasteless watery plants 😂
This is not correct.
Plus no need for pesticides!
Why is it that videos about technology based farming advances keep showing crops like lettuce and herbs, and pretend like that is the future of food. Let's talk when we have indoor wheat, corn, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, growing at scale and low cost.
Billionaires getting ready for the big event.
Hmm…🤔
And it works so well they just layed off half of their employees...
Wow, a roomba for "farming" so impressed. Have to have electronics, electricity, computers, and robots to grow plants. No sources of failure here. Supply chain won't break this process at all /s It's hippy meets need. Great
A lot of work for 🍔
way too much over engineeering for some green leaves . Over kill of technioology for technology sake
Getting ready for Mars…
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Yeah, no. To accommodate these specific robots, they are basically taking out scaling vertically where other business are able to outpace produce/acre. There are vertical warehouse robots that would do the same job of lifting pallets from stacked shelves. I think people just stick on "A.I" as a marketing gimmick where a single worker could determine the health and quality of the plant with less time and investment.
It can take years or decades for people to get THAT good with plants
@@andrewdiaz3529 I could find you a mexican field laborer who would be good for that job.
Slowly getting rid of human workers wonder how much just one cost probably more then they would pay someone
Skynet steps to killing all humans
1) make all food managed by robots
2) then burn all human food
3) all humans starve
4) all robots rule earth
5) go back to the moon, I MEAN go to the moon......
Man will never understand what really happens to plants grown the tech way. Sad people will be the future.
Just the nutrients they need. 😔
Total FUD!!!!
this kind of stuff is honestly silly… go stand in a field at a real farm where the crops go as far as your eyes can see to get an idea of the scale it takes to feed the world… putting giant greenhouse buildings as far as your eye can see isn’t only unrealistic it would be an environmental catastrophe…
Current agribusiness practices already is a catastrophe and doesn't feed much of the world. Also the guy states the goal is to set up near large urban areas to provide certain produce closer, cutting down on expensive transportation
There are tribes in the Amazon, surviving Exclusively on Basil 😁
ok this also reduces jobs so how will people afford what u grow when they have no job to pay for it
How about you try growing some real food?? 🤔
Seems over engineered
Are they listening to this in the Midwest and in the Southern United States? Droughts are going to force mobilization if we don't get smart.
I bet they are tasteless
why?
There is more Taste in it than in traditional growing because they have exactly the Conditions they need
The Food is even more healthy
Plus there is no Pestizide in the Food
I am wondering why all this companies are farming vegetables only 🤔
What about fruit and other produce that taste much better than greens 🥬
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Wow