eg:

  • having vision and modern motion planning means you can have machines pick mushrooms in and around fruit trees, so you can grow mushrooms and trees together and get higher yield of both without needing fertilizer
  • using compressive sensing you can have small, portable CT scanners that give you most of what you'd want from an MRI machine that costs millions of dollars and makes you sit perfectly still in a coffin while a giant magnet dangles over your head
  • by using autonomous navigation we can move goods over long distances using solar power and without needing roads