• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    Operating this at scale will be a problem. Yes, you can make one this big, but how durable is it when you build one at industrial scale? If you need a million little tiny fingers working for days at a time, what’s the mean time to failure and how hard are they to replace?

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      How many people do you think are weeding at a time on a farm? And at what rate?

      This is absolutely scalable. It doesn’t need to be bigger. It’ll just go row by row like every other farm tool :)

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        Right, but how long will it last before it breaks? If it can only do an acre of crops before part of the mechanism breaks it won’t get adopted by farmers.

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          How long until your car breaks? These aren’t going to be flimsy machines. What makes you think they would be?

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              I meant to convey that the machine isn’t going to fail after one acre or any other small amount. It won’t be built out of legos ;)

              And shouldn’t the end-game be to eliminate the need for human labor for these grueling jobs? Even if the first iteration isn’t quite as good, it is important to look to the future.