duncan robertson is renting his first prototypes to farmers.ople to work as robot supervisors. we employ people in a support function. they are responsible for deploying robots to customers sites and making sure that they're working - performing as well as they should. those jobs may be slightly better paid and perhaps slightly more desirable than fruit-picking. that may press all the right buttons for the government, but duncan robertson cautions that they're still in a test phase. human pickers will be needed alongside machines for some time to come. tim chambers continues to fume about the government withholding the foreign pickers he needs while brits won't take the jobs. for him, robots are still far off in the future. there are prototypes out there for strawberry harvesting, and some of them show initial signs of potentially, they might be quite good. but where's the capital going to come from to invest in that machinery? the industry is now on its knees. it's actually not making the money that we need to invest in that kind of machinery.

duncan robertson is renting his first prototypes to farmers.ople to work as robot supervisors. we employ people in a support function. they are responsible for deploying robots to customers sites and making sure that they're working - performing as well as they should. those jobs may be slightly better paid and perhaps slightly more desirable than fruit-picking. that may press all the right buttons for the government, but duncan robertson cautions that they're still in a test phase. human pickers will be needed alongside machines for some time to come. tim chambers continues to fume about the government withholding the foreign pickers he needs while brits won't take the jobs. for him, robots are still far off in the future. there are prototypes out there for strawberry harvesting, and some of them show initial signs of potentially, they might be quite good. but where's the capital going to come from to invest in that machinery? the industry is now on its knees. it's actually not making the money that we need to invest in that kind of machinery.

duncan robertson is renting his first prototypes to farmers.ople to work as robot supervisors. we employ people in a support function. they are responsible for deploying robots to customers sites and making sure that they're working - performing as well as they should. those jobs may be slightly better paid and perhaps slightly more desirable than fruit-picking. that may press all the right buttons for the government, but duncan robertson cautions that they're still in a test phase. human pickers will be needed alongside machines for some time to come. tim chambers continues to fume about the government withholding the foreign pickers he needs while brits won't take the jobs. for him, robots are still far off in the future. there are prototypes out there for strawberry harvesting, and some of them show initial signs of potentially, they might be quite good. but where's the capital going to come from to invest in that machinery? the industry is now on its knees. it's actually not making the money that we need to invest in that kind of machinery.