Robot Apple Picker Will Displace Illegal Alien Workers

Article author: 
Brenda Walker
Article publisher: 
Limits to Growth
Article date: 
29 April 2017
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
economy
jobs
immigration
illegal aliens
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Automation’s threat to jobs is not entirely negative, considering that robot pickers can replace an agricultural workforce that is generally estimated to be half illegal alien. The Associated Press article below notes that in Washington state, “several counties near the Canadian border are now majority-Hispanic.”

Abundant Robotics has developed a vacuum-based system that doesn’t bruise the apples. It doesn’t pick particularly quickly, but on balance, the machines can literally work 24 hours a day and don’t require lunch. In the video below, the developers describe how they moved from experimental versions to building a commercial machine.

 

The world of work is being fundamentally altered because of automation. What worries me is how the government is oblivious to smart machines coming on strong and acting as if nothing has changed....

 

Related

Donald Trump’s Ag Secretary Pushes for Illegal Immigrants, Not Robots, Breitbart, April 29, 2017

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