date:Oct 27, 2021
lme plans to market four machines that would contain about 20 robotic arms, perhaps more if farmers express the need. Lapalme estimates that one robotic arm replaces one worker in the field.
There are many growers who tell me they would like to expand their vegetable production and decrease their field crop production, but they can't do that because they are not able to find more labour, said Lapalme. So, that limits the development of vegetable farms in Quebec enormously.