But not all crops were easily adaptable to machines.
Obsessively curious about machines, Gannon sees industrial robots—often thought of as dinosaurs in the robotics community as the most reliable, adaptable, and robust machines in the world today.
The low dead weight additionally allows high mobility and quickly adaptable assembly of the machines within the required process chain.
The platform needs to be portable, in order to handle the heterogeneity of machines, and adaptable to environmental changes (i.e., resource availability).
"What we're doing that's different is going from dumb, blind and costly robots to ones that are sensor rich, have computer vision, machine learning and are adaptable," he said.
The present paper describes the on-going work with specific focus on the definition and implementation of the FoFdation Smart Machine Controller (SMC) in an adaptable architecture that satisfies both commercial and open source CNC controllers.
"In some sense, these machines need intelligence that is adaptable and they have to be able to learn for themselves".
"In a million years, if humanity isn't wiped out before that, biological intelligence will be viewed as merely the midwife of 'real' intelligence the powerful, scalable, adaptable, immortal sort that is characteristic of the machine realm".
As a consequence machine tools are required to be adaptable and modifiable for different products or different conditions.
The goal is to propose an adaptable and reactive control law for two-legged machines.
