Lewis Anderson Profile picture
Co-Founder & CEO at @TrapticInc. Hiker. Skiier. Robot builder.
May 28, 2019 5 tweets 2 min read
Over the last 200 years, humanity has totally mechanized the production of field crops (wheat, corn, soybeans, etc), yet most fruits and vegetables are harvested by hand - due to need for delicacy and precision. We started @TrapticInc to fix that

Why bother? World's workforce is aging. Immigration policies are tightening. And these jobs suck. Nobody wants them.

At the same time, world population is growing towards 10 billion people

So farmers face a critical labor shortage