{"id":91349,"date":"2019-05-27T10:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T17:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/raspberry-picking-machines-will-replace-dwindling-numbers-of-migrant-farm-workers"},"modified":"2019-05-27T10:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T17:42:23","slug":"raspberry-picking-machines-will-replace-dwindling-numbers-of-migrant-farm-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/raspberry-picking-machines-will-replace-dwindling-numbers-of-migrant-farm-workers","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry-picking MACHINES will replace dwindling numbers of migrant farm workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2019\/05\/27\/7130272204865189070\/1024x576_MP4_7130272204865189070.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Hours spent toiling away under the beating sun to harvest berries and fruit may soon be a thing of the past as robots look set to replace humans in the field.<\/p>\n<p>A \u00a3700,000 machine built by the University of Plymouth has succeeded in plucking a raspberry from a plant and carefully placing it in a punnet.<\/p>\n<p>The painstaking process takes a whole minute to get one berry because it requires a combination of soft robotics, clever AI and \u2018deep learning\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7074831\/Raspberry-picking-MACHINES-replace-dwindling-numbers-migrant-farm-workers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours spent toiling away under the beating sun to harvest berries and fruit may soon be a thing of the past as robots look set to replace humans in the field. A \u00a3700,000 machine built by the University of Plymouth has succeeded in plucking a raspberry from a plant and carefully placing it in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91349","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}