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Which, from what I understand, a lot of advanced farm machinery already is semi-automated, with vehicles driving themselves using gps and satnav.

Combine harvesters follow a yield-centric, oil-hungry model of agriculture, using wheat bred specifically to be harvested with a combine. If we want to fix food systems we need to embrace food and soil biodiversity, and so far, most wheat varieties that do that require less intensive forms of harvest, not necessarily manual, but not a large combine either.

The problem is that through like 98% of human history, the solution has been to throw human labor at the problem, with most innovations improving labor efficiency or making farm work less harsh. With the advent of the industrial revolution the peasantry was proletarianized and forced to move to the cities, leaving whoever was left to do agriculture to apply the same profit motive to agriculture, instead of imagining a more human-sized agriculture.

I read that anthroporphism in servant robots is something rich technocrats push because its a another way to own and command people.

some kind of god awful techno-centipede with fifteen pairs of arms harvesting whole sections of rows at once or something

this is the kind of thinking we want under future socialism, we will take brutalism to whole new lengths chuds could never imagine on their own

if it's not human-shaped how will I feel like a feudal lord watching subordinate wretches work for me?

You don't even need to imagine some kind of god awful techno-centipede, combine harvesters exist and can already be programmed to follow gps routes.

what's the real world advantages of antropomorphic design? Genuinely asking, best I can come up with is niche SAR Robot

Despite AI being recent, this problem is very well documented in Marxist literature for over a century. Based on the organic composition of capital, the two forms of capital is constant (nature, machines, etc.) and variable capital (workers). When you automate work, that means more variable capital becomes constant capital. But that also means that you can't exploit it like you exploit humans through surplus value. So while it makes sense in the short term for capitalists, this is also a factor that leads to an economic crisis and everything that follows it.

Yeah. The neo-liberal goal for automation is the Terminator dark future where robots can produce wealth for a tiny ruling class while the now surplus working class is exterminated.

Automation is for disciplining labor and reducing the size of the classes that threaten capital.

Not for increasing efficiency quality or quantity of production! What even is this commie bullshit?

Slavery fetish. Its a thing.

It does that, and more over a larger area and faster.

eh, a tractor requires a shitton of roads, huge open fields and monoculture. robots like this could use the same walking infrastructure that people use. with these, we could plant three sisters type stuff instead of modern monocolture agriculture.

so yeah, it's goofy but also not quite the same as a combine harvester

One factor in soil erosion is actually the problem that the weight and vibration of tractors, packing the earth and messing up the balance of worms, bacteria, etc in the soil.

That robot would be wildly over complex and prone to failure compared to just giving it tracks

Copying some of the worst design failures in humans because it lets me feel like a feudal lord

Imagine looking at the millions of years of evolution it took to get a bipedal design that works good enough and going "yeah, that's what we should emulate."

When God's perfect quadripedal design already exists.

The robot will be living in a little metal hut, sit on a chair during any downtime and sleep in a bed to re-charge.

We already have robots to do this, they just use wheels instead of legs.

Its not like these things can pick tomatoes yet.