Sunday, January 17, 2010

The agri-bots are coming!

One of the big potential markets for machine vision is agriculture, or so says The Economist in “Fields of automation” (December 10th, 2009.)

The point is that it’s becoming very difficult to find the people to do the back-breaking work of picking fruit, and as plants insist on exhibiting random variations in the way they present their produce, automation is going to depend upon machine vision.

Great news for those of you looking for a big new application area!

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