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Saturday, 23 June 2007

Robopicker


One side effect of the immigration debate in the United States is that fruit growers, nervous about their supply of cheap Latin American labour. are starting to look at robots to take up the slack.

I don't have much interest in the US immigration issue in general (Solving the problem of Mexican incursions is infinitely preferable to that of dealing with Jihadi-inclined Muslims), but it's a beautiful example of how technological change works. I have no doubt that if it weren't for the large influx of illegal workers, we'd have seen these machines being developed a generation ago.
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousSunday, 24 June 2007 at 22:20:00 GMT-7

    How about coverting these Robopickers into Robochuckers and set them up at the border. Try and sneak across, and it hurls you back like a discus.

    Look, being a 5th generation immigrant, I'm all for folks coming here to start a better life. But can they at *least* sign the guestbook on the way in?

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