Let’s face it farmers are usually slow to change their practices for a couple reasons. Change usually comes with a high price tag – a new tractor can cost a half million dollars. And farmers want to minimize risk by only investing in things that have been successfully tested and in the end don’t reduce profits. But robots are slowly changing that perspective. “At the end of the day robots can go into really harsh environments where people really don’t want to work and in turn it will create new jobs like the people that are maintaining the robots, the people that are actually programming the robots,” says Jason Vazzano with Electric Motor Shop and Supply in Fresno. “It will bring a whole different facet of labor pool.” He outfits basic robots with parts for farmers across the region. He’s opening a little box at their downtown Fresno office and warehouse. Inside is a small plastic square sensor that can be attached to a machine or robot. The sensor detects if something is in front of
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