Robots revolutionize California's farming industry

Published: July 15, 2013 10:01 AM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo credit: AP | Jorge Heraud, CEO of Blue River Technology, center, explains how the lettuce bot works as software engineer Willy Pell, in green, watches in Salinas, Calif. (May 23, 2013)

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On a windy morning in California's Salinas Valley, a tractor pulled a wheeled, metal contraption over rows of budding iceberg lettuce plants. Engineers from Silicon Valley tinkered with the software on a laptop to ensure the machine was eliminating the right leafy buds.

The engineers were testing the Lettuce Bot, a machine that can "thin" a field of lettuce in the time it takes about...

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