A modular agricultural robot from Bosch startup Deepfield Robotics deals with weeds the old fashioned way: violently
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Jerome TOUVERON's curator insight,
March 22, 2017 8:53 AM
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
Agriculture accounts for only 2% of workforce but 100% of the planet depends on it for its survival. Disrupting agriculture with digital technology may have the impact that genetic manipulations and fertilizers, with much less side effects. Moreover, digital agriculture transforms the lives of farmers themselves, turning them more into information workers surrounded by big data and robots than manure shovels and sunburns. And that is a good thing.
Jerome TOUVERON's curator insight,
April 1, 2017 5:11 PM
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Agriculture accounts for only 2% of workforce but 100% of the planet depends on it for its survival. Disrupting agriculture with digital technology may have the impact that genetic manipulations and fertilizers, with much less side effects. Moreover, digital agriculture transforms the lives of farmers themselves, turning them more into information workers surrounded by big data and robots than manure shovels and sunburns. And that is a good thing.
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Curated by Farid Mheir
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT
This looks like a proof of concept but it shows that autonomous machines should become a reality in the agriculture business sooner than we may think. Advances in self-driving technology, AI, networking, mobile devices, etc. have contributed to make this possible.
Other more generic applications such as harvesting barley also been introduced: http://fmcs.digital/blog/autonomous-robots-plant-tend-and-harvest-entire-crop-of-barley/