{"id":148671,"date":"2022-10-22T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-robot-is-doing-the-job-robots-help-pick-strawberries-in-california-amid-drought-labor-shortage"},"modified":"2022-10-22T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-22T15:22:40","slug":"the-robot-is-doing-the-job-robots-help-pick-strawberries-in-california-amid-drought-labor-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-robot-is-doing-the-job-robots-help-pick-strawberries-in-california-amid-drought-labor-shortage","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe robot is doing the job\u201d: Robots help pick strawberries in California amid drought, labor shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-robot-is-doing-the-job-robots-help-pick-strawberries-in-california-amid-drought-labor-shortage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>California produces about 90% of the nation\u2019s strawberries, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/an-australian-startup-is-growing-water-for-drought-parched-california\/\" target=\"_blank\">severe drought and worker shortages<\/a> are threatening the fruit. One company is hoping to change that with the power of robots.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Adamson\u2019s company is behind a strawberry robotic revolution. He said they\u2019re programmed to think on their own, with cameras that sense texture and color.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think robots have been around forever, but they\u2019re actually very, very new, especially robots that make decisions and are autonomous,\u201d Adamson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California produces about 90% of the nation\u2019s strawberries, but severe drought and worker shortages are threatening the fruit. One company is hoping to change that with the power of robots. Eric Adamson\u2019s company is behind a strawberry robotic revolution. He said they\u2019re programmed to think on their own, with cameras that sense texture and color. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}