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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by givemefive on Friday July 07, 2017 @01:08AM (#14716223)
I don't really understand what he's talking about. Most farm equipment nowadays has thousands in dollars of GNSS equipment and a multitude of other sensors.
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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by sideshowb on Friday July 07, 2017 @04:10AM (#14716879)
This. I suspect quite a lot of techies here would be surprised by modern farming.
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Re:Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot by noir_lord on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:06AM (#14717258)
I've followed what's happening in that sphere tangentially because I find industrial programming fascinating.

I think a lot of techies would be surprised what all that stuff costs as well.

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