Monster Thoughts

  Watch out illegals, the machines have come back with a vengence and they aren't after John Connor this time. This time they want YOUR JOBS!!! Thats right, MIT students and other mechanical developers have created newer, more advanced farming robots that seemingly take the 'hard' out of hard labor. From smart gardeners that uses sensors to tell it to harvest ripe product to carts with laser range finders as guides and automated pruners equipped with 3D cameras that tell where to cut. The one thing that all these machines have in common is that its about half the cost to operate these machines as opposed to regular manual labor. There are countless other machines in the works that will give farmers endless applications to further cut cost and improve productivity as the field of robitics continues to sky rocket as each year passes. The idea of robot workers also appeals to farmers since the number of migrant workers varies from year to year causing much of the harvestable crop to rot. While illegal immigrants are most times the usual solution to the migrant problem they are now becoming a serious legal liability.The good thing about these new machines is that it won't take jobs away from the public since someone has to be able to maintain these robots. Tony Stentz of Carnegie Mellon University's National Robitics Engineering Center believes we will see farming robots out in the fields in the next five years. I'm personally looking foward to seeing the robot they make to deal with those pesky killer tomatoes.