Ready Set Grow Podcast - Farmer using DOT Autonomous farming and robots in the future

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I know a guy who bought a DOT. Used it to seed a few quarters. Ended up giving it back I understand. I think things did work but this stuff is just at the very start of its development. Give this 10 years and I think it will be interesting. I am amused by the farmers who appear to be threatened by this tech and maybe think they are out of job? I think the profitability in farming in the future will really dictate where we go. For myself I will wait until the bugs are worked out. We still have a lot of flat bins that have to be cleaned out in the summer and nobody likes that job. Its perfect for a robot it do. Imagine robots shoveling grain behind the drag auger in big bins?

Why not prioritize automating dirty, dusty, unhealthy, dangerous, not fun jobs such as this first. ( although, I think the hopper bin may have accomplished this decades ago...)

Probably because as difficult as autonomous driving is, cleaning out a bin is likely even more complicated, although the potential for things to go horribly wrong might be lower.

[WiltonRanch]

Need a robot for fixing fence and to deal with the accountant.