Ask HN: Why technology is not hot about solving real life problems?
There&#x27;s a huge variety of automated machinery used in agriculture already. Tilling, sowing, and harvesting grains can be done by robots. Cows can be fed and milked by robots. A &quot;roomba for weeds&quot; sweeps the fields scanning every plant and spraying herbicides only on the weeds, leaving the veggies untouched. Self-driving tractors have been driving themselves up and down fields for over a decade.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Driverless_tractor" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Driverless_tractor</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smartmachines.bluerivert.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smartmachines.bluerivert.com&#x2F;</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.precisionplanting.com&#x2F;#products&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.precisionplanting.com&#x2F;#products&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.deepfield-robotics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;deepfield-connect.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;shop.deepfield-robotics.com&#x2F;en&#x2F;deepfield-connect.htm...</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweeper-robot.eu&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sweeper-robot.eu&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lely.com&#x2F;the-barn&#x2F;milking&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lely.com&#x2F;the-barn&#x2F;milking&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lely.com&#x2F;the-barn&#x2F;feeding&#x2F;vector&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lely.com&#x2F;the-barn&#x2F;feeding&#x2F;vector&#x2F;</a><p>I don&#x27;t believe it&#x27;s true that everyone&#x27;s working on self-driving cars to the exclusion of applications of robotics to farming... I also don&#x27;t believe buying a $120,000 robot is similar to buying a tomato at a farmer&#x27;s market.