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Nachi SA Series Robot
Nachi SA Series Robot
At the start of the movie Runaway, Jack Ramsay and his new partner are called
in to work with an agricultural robot that is out of control and zigzagging around in
a corn field.
At the start of the movie Runaway, Jack Ramsay and his new partner are called in to
work with an agricultural robot that is out of control and zigzagging around in a corn
field.
He gets the lowdown from his staff.
"Any armament?"
"Just the claw. And it's only programmed to look for things smaller than an
inch."
This movie agro-bot (or just agbot) has a very nicely programmed sense of
touch; it can pick a larva off a leaf easily.
It turns out that Crichton or his special effects guys must have been paying
attention to the robotics news. The first intelligent agricultural robot (as opposed
to farm machinery) was tested in use for tomato harvesting in Tampa, Florida in
1983.