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Publication date: 20 October 2014

Richard Bloss

– This paper aims to review the dramatic entry of robotics into the field of agriculture.

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to review the dramatic entry of robotics into the field of agriculture.

Design/methodology/approach

Research of efforts around the world to apply robots to agricultural needs and participation in webcasts of the latest in agricultural robotic development projects.

Findings

Robots are enabling many new and innovative methodologies for performing traditional agricultural tasks of all types. Providing saving in labor, improved performance and faster field coverage.

Practical implications

Readers may be very surprised at the many tasks that robots are already addressing in the agricultural field around the world and the way just applications can have major benefits to farming.

Originality/value

A review of the wide range of the innovative application of robots to agricultural tasks worldwide.

Details

Industrial Robot: An International Journal, vol. 41 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0143-991X

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