Angus and other robots are key to a new wave of local agriculture that aims to raise lettuce, basil and other produce in metropolitan areas while conserving water and sidestepping the high costs of human labour.
Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He's heavyset, weighing in at nearly 450kg, not to mention a bit slow. But he's strong enough to hoist 362kg pallets of maturing vegetables and can move them from place to place on his own.
Sure, Angus is a robot. But don't hold that against him, even if he looks more like a large tanning bed than C-3PO.
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