Mack DeGeurin is a tech reporter who’s spent years investigating where technology and politics collide. His work has previously appeared in Gizmodo, Insider, New York Magazine, and Vice.
Starting in early March, dozens of large, futuristic-looking white machines started slowly trolling through farmland in The Netherlands. At first glance, the machines look like a cross between a tractor and World War I-era track-based tank, albeit with a distinctly shiny sci-fi shimmer. The machines are actually fully autonomous, AI enabled agriculture robots tasked with spotting and eliminating diseased tulip bulbs ahead of the country’s iconic and financially significant Spring tulip bloom.
For Dutch farmers, tulips aren’t just pretty to look at either. They are a big business. The Netherlands is consistently the world’s leading exporter of tulips and reportedly exported €81.9 million worth of flowers to countries outside of the European Union in 2022, according to The Brussels Times. Around 800 different varieties of tulips are planted and can bloom in vibrant reds, oranges, and yellow rows.
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