Robot Hand Could Harvest Blackberries Better Than Humans

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• count_dongulus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well no shit, they don’t care if they get fuckin stabbed

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Makes sense, because blackberry thorns are just awful.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    IIRC, they have hybrids with a bunch of other berries that don’t have thorns.

    I don’t think that boysenberries have thorns, though I haven’t been picking them for a long time.

    kagis

    Apparently there are thorny and thornless variants.

    The boysenberry /ˈbɔɪzənbɛri/ is a cross between the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus), European blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), American dewberry (Rubus aboriginum), and loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus).[2]

    In the 1980s, breeding efforts in New Zealand combined cultivars and germplasm from California with Scottish sources to create five new thornless varieties.[5]

    The loganberry:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loganberry

    The loganberry (Rubus × loganobaccus) is a hybrid of the North American blackberry (Rubus ursinus) and the European raspberry (Rubus idaeus),[1][2] accidentally bred in 1881 by James Harvey Logan, for whom they are named.[3] They are cultivated for their edible fruit.

    A prickle-free mutation of the loganberry, the ‘American Thornless’, was developed in 1933.

    The “smooth blackberry”:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubus_canadensis

    Rubus canadensis is a North American species of flowering plant in the rose family known by the common names smooth blackberry,[2] Canadian blackberry, thornless blackberry and smooth highbush blackberry.[3] It is native to central and eastern Canada (from Newfoundland to Ontario) and the eastern United States (New England, the Great Lakes region, and the Appalachian Mountains).[4][5] It has also been sparingly recorded in Great Britain, in which it is often confused for the many other native blackberry species.[6]

    plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/rubus-canadensis/

    Smooth blackberry has almost completely smooth stems that are free of prickles and spines.

    Probably others.

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    • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Marionberries are great, but I’ve never seen them in the wild so I don’t know how thorny they are.

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• Intheflsun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean when I’m picking them, like 65% end up being eaten, 35% end up in the basket. I don’t imagine the clankers would eat that much.

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t tell Elon, it’ll become a sex toy.

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  • zero@fek.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder if it’s better than the human hand?

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• Alloi@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it can harvest my black berries…

  and by that i mean it can be used as an automated masturbation device to extract the semen via sexual stimulation from my genital region. implying that i wouldnt use it for its intended purpose, but for sexual ones, as a joke.

  on a subconcious level, this is a knee jerk reaction to creeping feeling of humans becoming more and more obsolete in the face of automation, and the horrific potentialities of what is yet to come.

  fuckin’ clankers!

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