• On Land Destroyed by the Tsunami, Japan is Building a Futuristic Robot Farm
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[QUOTE]You have to hand it to the Japanese; Last March’s Tohoku earthquake and associated tsunami wasn’t the first natural (or unnatural, for that matter) disaster to befall the island nation, but as just as before the country isn’t simply rebuilding. Instead, it’s rethinking and improving upon what was there before. The latest example: Japan’s agriculture ministry is building a fully robotic experimental farm on a swath of farmland inundated by the tsunami. After salt is removed from the soil of the 600 acre plot, the agriculture ministry’s plan calls for unmanned tractors to work fields lit by LEDs that will keep insects at bay in lieu of pesticides. The robotic tractors will till, plant, and tend to rice, soybeans, wheat, and various fruits and vegetables that will then also be harvested by their robotic overseers. The robo-farm, planned for a space in Miyagi prefecture roughly 200 miles north of Tokyo, is part of an effort to find smarter ways to reclaim Japan’s farmland--some 60,000 acres of which was fouled by the tsunami--and find more efficient ways to make use of the country’s limited agricultural space. Getting more out of each square foot of agricultural real estate isn’t just a Japanese imperative, of course. As the global population increases, increasing the per-acre yield of agricultural space is becoming more and more crucial. Leave it to tech-savvy Japan to understand fundamentally that technology is the way forward in farming. As such, the “Dream Project,” as the robo-farm initiative is known, will be built by partners like Panasonic, Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC, and Sharp--technology companies most of us would probably wouldn’t associate with agriculture. But perhaps we should start thinking that way. The Japanese certainly are. [img]http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/articles/tsunami_7.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/farmland-destroyed-tsunami-japan-building-futuristic-robot-farm[/url]
Until another tsunami comes and destroys it. They should be building a giant wall instead.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34088100]Until another tsunami comes and destroys it. They should be building a giant wall instead.[/QUOTE] Like this one? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fy3jx.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Ridge;34088125]Like this one? [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/fy3jx.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Like this [IMG]http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/office/dewey/china/photos/shanxi/pingyao/wall.jpg[/IMG] (Sorry for large image)
That's one sexy wall.
[QUOTE=Saphirx;34089083]That's one sexy wall.[/QUOTE] Indeed. It makes me erect a tower when I see it.
Damn that's a quick recovery from what happened.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34088988]Like this [IMG]http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/office/dewey/china/photos/shanxi/pingyao/wall.jpg[/IMG] (Sorry for large image)[/QUOTE] Great Wall of Japan?
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;34088988]Like this [IMG]http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/office/dewey/china/photos/shanxi/pingyao/wall.jpg[/IMG] (Sorry for large image)[/QUOTE] Mongolians in Japan might confuse it with China's and try to tear it down.
ASIANS...
[QUOTE=Kastro;34091913]ASIANS...[/QUOTE] You got something to say?
[QUOTE=Kastro;34091913]ASIANS...[/QUOTE] You're an Asian too geographically.
[QUOTE=kimr120;34092220]You're an Asian too geographically.[/QUOTE] And genetically, the turks are originally steppe people migrated from the area what is now Mongolia.
[QUOTE=Kastro;34091913]ASIANS...[/QUOTE] Nobody has shit on Asians bro
Unlike most of Japan's [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_NdnYrDzY]other robot fetish creations,[/url] this one could be widely distributed and actually be useful. I doubt it will mechanise agriculture in the same way other machines did, but it'd still save a lot of manpower and improve a lot of lives.
Still waiting on them to build a multi-story autonomous hydroponics farm in a city.
Tsunami hits. Japan: fuck that, robot farm.
How about making wall building robots
We can rebuild it. We have the technology.
I'm voting for the Japanese to take care of setting up agriculture and terraforming when we colonize mars. Actually, scratch that, let them handle it entirely.
This is the first step, I can't wait for these farms to be implemented everywhere.
[QUOTE=smeismastger;34094527]I'm voting for the Japanese to take care of setting up agriculture and terraforming when we colonize mars. Actually, scratch that, let them handle it entirely.[/QUOTE] Japanese designed and German built.
We really need to do that with mining.
[QUOTE=Kastro;34091913]ASIANS...[/QUOTE] Got a problem bro
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