until now, harvest workers from mexico have picked the strawberries. i can tell you it's a very hard job in the fields, need to be picked every 3 days. so the rule of thumb is always been, you need one person per acre. so now with the of thousands of acres, you need thousands of people. but in the last 20 years, fewer and fewer workers have been available and the berries haven't been picked. the farmer has suffered huge losses, but necessity is the mother of invention. he hired a robotics engineer. together, they develop the harvesting machine. it costs $700000.00, but the farmers don't have to find it. play far away for harvesting. the robot navigates autonomously through the rows. it's able to distinguish between humans and objects with the help of lasers to get a number of patterns. one of them is this pattern, that is a station keeping pattern, which we're able to hold the position of the robotic. picking that while the machine can, you continues to move at a slow pace. this wheel is, has a series of clause on it where the robots pick the very uh,