Agricultural robot
An agricultural robot or agribot is a robot deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of application of robots in agriculture is at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking robots, driverless tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human labour. The agricultural industry is behind other complementary industries in using robots because the sort of jobs involved in agriculture are not straightforward, and many repetitive tasks are not exactly the same every time. In most cases, a lot of factors have to be considered (e.g., the size and colour of the fruit to be picked) before the commencement of a task. Robots can be used for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and monitoring. Robots can also be used in livestock applications (livestock robotics) such as milking, washing and castrating.
Examples
- "Ag Ant", an inexpensive foot-long bot that works cooperatively.[1]
- The Oracle Robot[2]
- The Shear Magic Robot[3]
- Fruit Picking Robot[4]
- LSU's AgBot[5][6]
- Harvest Automation is a company founded by former iRobot employees to develop robots for greenhouses[7]
- Strawberry picking robot from Robotic Harvesting[8] and Agrobot.[9]
- Casmobot next generation slope mower[10]
- Fieldrobot Event is a competition in mobile agricultural robotics[11]
- HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot,[12]
- Lettuce Bot - Organic Weed Elimination and Thinning of Lettuce[13]
- Down on the Farm, Will Robots Replace Immigrant Labor?[14]
- Rice planting robot developed by the Japanese National Agricultural Research Centre [15]
See also
References
- ^ AgBots: Agricultural Robots Take The Field: Science Fiction in the News
- ^ The Oracle Robot
- ^ The Shear Magic Robot
- ^ Fruit Picking Robot
- ^ AgBot Multi-Function Robot Is Powered by the Sun
- ^ A fully customizable home robot
- ^ Harvest Automation, Inc.
- ^ "Robotic Harvesting".
- ^ http://www.agrobot.es
- ^ "Casmobot".
- ^ "The Field Robot Event".
- ^ "HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot".
- ^ Blue River Technologies
- ^ "Down on the Farm, Will Robots Replace Immigrant Labor?".
- ^ "Fields of automation".
External links
Media related to Agricultural robots at Wikimedia Commons
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