Robots To Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers

As technology advances - the day of the migrant fruit picker may be numbered.


http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/robo_picker

Looks like a neat machine and I can see many farmers being excited about it but.... families need to eat... People need the work....

I have picked fruit for the fun of it (pies) in the Okanagon B.C....
I agree not fun at all but for many picking fruit is what they live on...

Where do these people go when they do not have their jobs anymore because machines are doing the work they did.. :?

I do know that the fruit farmers in British Columbia would welcome the robot pickers..
They can never get enough pickers ...