Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

The Discourse has delighted in the unusual narrative that AI will only affect knowledge workers and spare physical laborers from displacement. Reality will probably be more complicated:

Ekobot AB has introduced a wheeled robot that can autonomously recognize and pluck weeds from the ground rapidly using metal fingers.

Today the story is about reducing the use harmful herbicides, but as advances in AI software continue to be married to advances in robotics, it will be interesting to see which categories of physically laborious jobs will be impacted over the next decade.

(Worth a click just to see the video of how violent the clank of rapid steel finger snatching is, by the way.)