h a l f b a k e r yThis ain't rocket surgery.
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Remote controlled with two cameras one for flight
control,
showing the copter's location, and one for control of the
fruit
cutting and placing the net under the fruit.
Also can grab the tree above the fruit or beside it and
hang
on, to save power.
The net is connected to a tethered
rope, so that the
copter
can stay up, above the tree or perched on it, and just
lower
the net with the cut fruit.
And advanced version would have a long controllable arm
which could be lowered from the copter as well, so the
copter can stay at a safe distance from the leaves.
It could also be used to scare the mynas away.
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I thought about this as well, from an ethical vegetarian perspective. Ethical vegetarians should also prefer things picked without human labor to be nicer to people. Really ethical chocolate from drone harvested cocoa pods, rather than youth harvested cocoa pods. |
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Also, drones could do a much better at flavor optimization. Aiming a laser or other sensor at individual fruits, then just getting the ones at the peak of flavor. (I thought they should use what are called quantum cameras to do flavor sensing at depth of the fruit.) |
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Beneficially I read there are actually programs now to develop fruit harvesting drones! |
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Those poor drone operators, their tired fingers, failing eyesight from straining at a display all day long ... fruit should be harvested from the ground after it has fallen from the tree naturally. |
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Or, preferably, eaten straight from the branch, untouched by human hands. |
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Not even eaten, but allowed to rot naturally |
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If a large airburst explosive charge is detonated above fruit trees, most of the fruit falls to the ground, and apart from a few shredded leaves the trees are largely undamaged. |
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Start by clipping flowers and other very light stuff the tree has placed for easy access for hummingbirds and bees. |
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Tackling Grapefruit right off will be disastrous. |
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Would that be a Mexican fruit picking quadcopter? |
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// Ethical vegetarians should also prefer things picked
without human labour to be nicer to people.// This is
satire gold. |
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..Because drones whose components are made in 3rd world
factories, from materials with entirely disastrous mining
and processing requirements - are perfectly okay. |
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So wait. Nobody said anything about how this idea can't
work and nobody claimed that it has been baked? Yippy! My
first. |
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So wait. Nobody said anything about how this idea can't
work and nobody claimed that it has been baked? Yippy! My
first. |
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// fruit should be harvested from the ground after it has
fallen from the tree naturally. // |
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A friend of mine (who sells fancy olive oils) has told me
multiple times that he finds olives disgusting because (he
says) that's how they harvest them. |
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