New autonomous farm wants to produce food without human workers - MIT Technology Review

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Down on a new robot farm, machines tend rows of leafy greens under the watch of software called “The Brain.”

Iron Ox isn’t like most robotics companies. Instead of trying to flog you its technology, it wants to sell you food.

As the firm’s cofounder Brandon Alexander puts it: “We are a farm and will always be a farm.”

But it’s no ordinary farm. For starters, the company’s 15 human employees share their work space with robots who quietly go about the business of tending rows and rows of leafy greens.


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Oh my, producing all these human food by robots and this is done without the soil, just water and chemicals. The question is what are the side effects of these plants to our body? A hydroponic processing of veggies and fruits has long been underway in Almeria, Spain and the harvest tastes differently vs. the ones planted in soil.

I am not against robots. But it could have been better to produce employment for humans. 

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