With the growth of new collaborative design (co-design) strategies for technology development, and increasing media attention on future automation of the farm, food producers are aware of new robotics on the horizon. This paper will discuss how apple growers are anticipating new robotic technologies intended to use artificial intelligence (AI) to automate aspects of the farm, paying particular attention to the ways that anticipation relates to preparatory assembling and reassembling of landscapes, work, and institutions. Our analysis considers the varying ways growers are practically assembling their orchards in anticipation of new technologies, and how their actions map onto ecological systems, labour relations, and farm capitalization. Our findings reveal some of the challenges to democratic forms of engagement with a robotic future, as well as some of the ways that growers enhance their capacity to engage meaningfully with new technologies.

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机器人准备就绪：苹果生产商如何组装以迎接新的人工智能机器人

随着新的技术开发协作设计（协同设计）策略的发展，以及媒体对未来农场自动化的关注日益增加，食品生产商意识到新的机器人技术即将出现。本文将讨论苹果种植者如何预期旨在使用人工智能 (AI) 实现农场各方面自动化的新机器人技术，特别关注预期与景观、工作和机构的准备组装和重组相关的方式。我们的分析考虑了种植者为迎接新技术而实际组建果园的不同方式，以及他们的行动如何映射到生态系统、劳动关系和农场资本化。我们的研究结果揭示了以民主形式参与机器人未来的一些挑战，以及种植者增强有意义地参与新技术的能力的一些方法。