After spending over $200 million taxpayer dollars building artificial intelligence powered tractors for Agriculture, the California project failed
“This is $200 million of government funding and private investment wasted on a failed autonomous AI robot tractor”
“I've been the test site on this for 3 years 'cause of my steep vineyard terrain, and it totally failed. Now the business in Livermore, California is shutting down and ending production”
“While I was excited to eliminate diesel, run off my solar panels and embrace new technology, it just did not perform. It was actually quite dangerous — the only job I could successfully find for it was making this custom log splitter hooked up to its hydraulics to split firewoods. So $200 million log splitter.
I'm also a little bit worried that this AI technology that the government's now putting a lot more funding towards is going to go hand in hand with Agrochemicals because their big argument is less human contact — The robots are doing the work well, but you're still eating the stuff”