1k-pound wheels and robots now farming Dyson strawberries

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13 points clumsysmurf | 3 comments | 09 Jul 25 00:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.418s | source
1. burnt-resistor ◴[09 Jul 25 05:09 UTC] No.44506494[source]▶
Dupe. I posted this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44487003
2. eliaspro ◴[09 Jul 25 09:27 UTC] No.44507909[source]▶
The packing density seems quite inefficient to me, since the whole volume of the rotating cylinder is basically wasted space and only used for the lighting.

Wouldn't it be far more space-efficient to use a paternoster conveyor like arrangement?