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points by daemonologist 4 days ago | 0 comments

I've always thought they could be good in agriculture (can't pipeline the ground, after all). Dealing with wind would probably require a ~fully constrained 6 line system though.

[–] defrost 4 days ago

"Agriculture" contains multitudes; here's an indoor pollination warehouse operation with pipeline tracks on the ground and no wind issues:

* https://costagroup.com.au/2022/07/06/world-first-robotic-pol...

  Australia's $900-million-a-year greenhouse tomato industry currently relies on farmers pollinating by hand
    “So we've managed to design a robot that pollinates greenhouse tomatoes.”
    “It autonomously drives along the rows, finds flowers that are ready for pollination using artificial intelligence, and sends air pulses to vibrate the flowers in a very specific manner to imitate buzz pollination as performed by bumblebees.”

* https://www.arugga.com/news/pollinating-robot-looking-to-sha...

[–] fritzo 4 days ago

Cables are indeed used extensively in tree agriculture

https://www.fs.usda.gov/forestmanagement/equipment-catalog/c...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_logging