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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is this cool or what?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://singularityhub.com/2016/08/26/farmbot-will-grow-your-food-for-you-just-press-go/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0a1cb48caf-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-0a1cb48caf-57458369">http://singularityhub.com/2016/08/26/farmbot-will-grow-your-food-for-you-just-press-go/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=0a1cb48caf-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-0a1cb48caf-57458369</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The challenge is to make it low enough cost to cover the few bucks worth of vegetables the average prole could produce in the backyard. I notice the ad seems to be vaguely aligned to the boutique crowd: people give away the vegetables, or raise them with no pesticides and such. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The cool advantage of this kind of system is that it would allow growing vegetables mixed together without any particular user knowledge base required. So everybody doesn’t just produce piles of zucchini, as is the current situation. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Another angle this farmbot gets that I missed in my previous speculations: if you have the bot only sow, weed and irrigate, but not harvest, the control problem is an order of magnitude easier, and the materials cost goes waaaay down. It still takes a human to harvest the veggies. Perfect! It is aimed at small scales, small places, ideal for growing victory gardens in the backyard but not yet commercial scale.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>