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0:53Now PlayingRobots take on American farming as agricultural workforce ages | USA TODAY
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0:53Now PlayingRobots are coming to American farms as a new model thins, weeds and will eventually harvest crops as farmworkers look to become robot operators.
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Looking like the ungainly combination of a Transformer and Edward Scissorhands, the robot slowly trundles across the field of tiny plants. It uses three high-resolution cameras to peer down at the ground below.
Lit by synchronized strobe lights, an onboard computer creates a digital image of each seedling as it glides by, comparing them with all the greenery it might reasonably find in a field of rich Salinas valley farmland two hours south of San Francisco.
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