Robotics and automation can play a significant role in society meeting 2050 agricultural production needs. For six decades robots have played a fundamental role in increasing the efficiency and reducing the cost of industrial production and products. In the past twenty years, a similar trend has started to take place in agriculture, with GPS- and vision-based self-guided tractors and harvesters already being available commercially. More recently, farmers have started to experiment with autonomous systems that automate or augment operations such as pruning, thinning, and harvesting, as well as mowing, spraying, and weed removal. In the fruit tree industry, for example, workers riding robotic platforms have shown to be twice as efficient as workers using ladders. Advances in sensors and control systems allow for optimal resource and integrated pest and disease management. This is just the beginning of what will be a revolution in the way that food is grown, tended, and harvested.




Types of Agriculture Robot:

* Fruit Picking Robot
* Harvest Automation
* Strawberry picking robot
* Fieldrobot
* HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot
* Lettuce Bot - Organic Weed Elimination and Thinning of Lettuce
* Down on the Farm, Will Robots Replace Immigrant Labor
* Rice planting robot