Robot Apple Picker Could Obsolete Hundreds Of Thousands Of Mexican Laborers

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Abundant Robotics is a spinoff of the global elite SRI International (Stanford Research Institute) based in Palo Alto, California Apples have been picked the same way - by hand - throughout history, but not any more. In Washington state alone, over 125,000 seasonal workers from Mexico pick apples - it's estimated that as many as 70 percent of them are illegals. Americans generally refuse to pick apples, unless it is a tree in their own back yard.

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