ChatGPT helps design a tomato-picking robot – job losses ahead?


Picking fruit and vegetables, once a labour-intensive process, has long been fingered among the sectors where job losses to robots were seen as likely. — Photo by Lewis Wilson on Unsplash

BERLIN: In what could be a further sign of job losses to come amid the rise in AI-powered robotics, a Dutch-Swiss team has come up with a tomato-picking robot with the help of ChatGPT.

Researchers at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and the Lausanne-based technical university EPFL said the artificial intelligence chatbot came up with a range of ideas and suggestions during the process, including what kind of robot they should go about putting together.

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