Robot harvests on the horizon; farm owners predict machines will revolutionize costs
Story Date: 7/22/2013

 
Source: Gosia Wozniacka and Terence Chea, NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/21/13

On a windy morning in California’s Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.

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