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Agricultural Mechanization: How to Automate Chili Harvests

Chili is just one of many crops that machines still can't harvest as well as humans. Asparagus, cherries, apples, saffron and chocolate are all harvested by hand. In agricultural mechanization, it's not sufficient to take what the person was doing and have a machine do it. You actually have to change the way the agriculture is done or even the nature of the crop.

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