Revolution In Agriculture Du To Innovative Robotics Trends!

Agriculture is going through a technological revolution, as primary producers increasingly lean on robotics to address various issues.

FREMONT, CA: Agricultural robots can alleviate farmer burdens for many jobs. Their main function is to finish time-consuming, repetitive, and physically challenging jobs. Still, in recent years, robots have been deployed to do various specialized tasks previously reserved for expert farmers. For example, it involves the capacity to differentiate delicate fruits and vegetables like lettuce and strawberries from others.

Following are the latest trends in robotization, demonstrating that innovative technologies and task automation can guide overcome some of the farming obstacles.

Robots for harvesting and picking

Harvesting and picking robots are especially helpful for high-value crops, such as wine grapes, where harvesting has historically been difficult and time-consuming. Nanotechnology, materials science, and mechatronics advancements made picking robots recognize and assess fruits for ripeness and grip and detach them without causing damage.

Future Farming may use harvest robots and even drones to harvest broccoli, citrus fruits, cauliflower, kiwi fruit, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, lettuce, mangos, and watermelon. In addition, certain field robots can even do tasks previously performed by tractors, such as soil cultivation, seeding, crop care, and mowing.

Robots for weeding

High-value crops such as some varieties of lettuce, strawberries, blueberries, oranges and other citrus fruits, and winery grapes appear to offer the most compelling commercial reasons for weeding robots. These robots are particularly beneficial in areas with steep terrain that threaten workers and equipment. Weeding robots can also deliver targeted doses of herbicides to weeds but not to crops, significantly reducing herbicide use.

Robots for milking

Dairy farmers are transforming from manual to automated milking systems to meet the rapid growth in global milk demand and labor shortages. As a result, market share is predicted to transition in the following years from standalone units to multiple stall units and ultimately to advanced rotary units. Automated feeding and barn cleaning technologies also hand out to the industry's efficiency gains.