Farm Automation Technologies

An increasing number of organizations are working on robotics innovation. Even though these technologies are still relatively new, traditional agriculture corporations are increasingly incorporating farm automation into their operations.

Fremont, CA: With the world's population rising at an alarming rate. The requirement for farmers to produce nutritious products is higher than ever, putting the planet's health in trouble.

Technological advancements have transformed modern agriculture from robotics and drones to computer vision software. Farmers now have access to equipment to help them fulfill the world's increasing population demands.

Technologies being used in farm automation:

Harvest Automation

Automating fruit and vegetable harvesting has often been challenging. Harvest robots must handle vegetables carefully to avoid cuts, bruises, and damage. Agrobot has advanced the world's first gentle strawberry harvesting robot, despite where or how strawberries are ripe as far as 24 robotic manipulators work together to pick fruit that meets the farmer's quality criteria from a versatile, mobile platform. Ample Robotics, for instance, is the world's first commercial robotic apple harvesting firm.

Seeding and weeding

Seeding and weeding robotics are programmed to focus on a certain agricultural patch. This can rapidly reduce labor and tedious duties on the farm when seeding. With computer vision, weeding robotics can be extremely accurate and minimize pesticide usage by 90%.

Lue River Technology employs computer vision and robotics to spray herbicides precisely where and when needed. As a result, herbicide-resistant weeds now have a new weapon to attack and avoid.

Drones

Drones can monitor conditions and remotely spray fertilizer, pesticides, and other treatments. They can also utilize imaging and infrared analysis to quickly and economically detect problem areas, allowing farmers to address issues sooner rather than later.

In addition, American Robotics is developing a fully autonomous Robot-as-a-Service that includes an autonomous drone, base station, and analytics platform to provide growers with data at unprecedented resolutions, frequencies, and speeds.