Strawberry picking Robot only picks the red ones. At time of press, Sarah Connor has not returned our phone calls

Think your job picking fruit in the fields is safe?  Think again.  Yet another category of high-paying jobs has been wiped out by some steel pincers — Japanese, robot strawberry-pickers. Japan's job-stealing robot detects which berries are at least 80 per cent red, and picks them gently off the vine.  And it doesn't gripe about working conditions, either.

The mechanical field-worker is being trained to pick other forms of berries too, but if the berry-bot gets to the point where it can be released safely into the wilds of strawberry farms alone, it'll supposedly reduce harvest time by 40 per cent. That means fewer jobs for humans, and even more 'bots handling our sweet little bombs of juice. The future is definitely mechanical (and doomed), especially when these things learn how to swim the Pacific and get into the country illegally.