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Agricultural Robots

Agricultural robots are automated machines designed to perform various tasks in farming, such as harvesting, seeding, and monitoring crops. They range from simple robotic arms to advanced systems with AI and sensors that adapt to their environment. Key types of agricultural robots include harvesting, seeding, picking and packing, palletising, spraying, and livestock robots, which enhance efficiency and reduce the need for human labor.

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Agricultural Robots

Agricultural robots are automated machines designed to perform various tasks in farming, such as harvesting, seeding, and monitoring crops. They range from simple robotic arms to advanced systems with AI and sensors that adapt to their environment. Key types of agricultural robots include harvesting, seeding, picking and packing, palletising, spraying, and livestock robots, which enhance efficiency and reduce the need for human labor.

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Agricultural Robots:

Agricultural robots are automated machines or robotic systems that


have the capacity to perform tasks on farms or in agricultural environments. They
vary in design and can be programmed to perform specific tasks or, increasingly,
are designed to be responsive to and react to the unique environment around them.

Robots Are Used in Agriculture:


There is a wide range of different robots that are commonly used in
agriculture. The most popular robots are designed for harvesting, and are often
intended to pick fruit or vegetables in the fields or in greenhouses, or are designed
to pack produce in warehouses.

These automated harvesting robots are commonly based on classic


robotic designs and will be designed with versatile robot arms and other practical
robotic applications. Other agricultural robots may be more complex, with built-in
sensors and AI that allows the robot to adapt to its surroundings.

There are other types of automation that could be considered robotic,


other than the classic harvesting and pick-and-pack robots. This includes
technology-driven equipment such as driverless tractors, which can be
programmed to follow set routes in fields and to react to obstacles or adapt to the
conditions around them.

The most popular types of agricultural robots currently in use include:


 Harvesting robot.
 Seeding robots.
 Picking and packing robots.
 Palletising robots.
 Spraying robots.
 Monitoring and surveillance robots.
 Livestock robot.

Seeding robots:Industrial-sized farms have hundreds, sometimes thousands of


acres of fields to seed throughout the year, a task that takes time and requires
repetitive labour.Often crops are sown using machinery, although this commonly
requires a driver to operate and oversee the process. Automation is changing this,
and robots and driverless tractors now provide farmers with a way to seed fields
quickly, efficiently and accurately, with little need for human interference.
Harvesting robot:Crop harvesting is the primary function of agricultural robots
that are currently utilised on farms.Crop harvesting traditionally relies on a large
and often seasonal workforce. Despite requiring exceptional levels of skill and
experience, it remains low paid, hard work and undesirable, with farmers
struggling to fill roles when they need crops picked, particularly at short
notice.This is where automation is so important because agricultural robots have
the capacity to ensure that crops don’t rot in the fields and that farmers can pick
produce when needed.
A common example of an agricultural robot used in a crop harvesting
capacity includes automated picking arms that can be programmed to pick the fruit
when the fruit has ripened. Advanced sensors allow the robots to distinguish
between ripe and unripe fruit, and to even remove mouldy fruits from the plants.

Picking and packing robots:Traditionally, human workers are required to


process and pack fruits and vegetables once they’ve been harvested from the
fields.This is another repetitive agricultural task, but it’s an essential step in getting
food from the field into supermarkets. It’s also a task that requires a surprising
amount of skill and experience and, depending on the fruit or vegetable, dexterity
too.
The job of a packer varies from one type of product to the next. For
example, potatoes may be sorted into hessian sacks while strawberries need to be
delicately placed into individual punnets. Parts of this process may already be
automated through the use of conveyor belts, where it’s also possible to employ
robotic arms to undertake picking and packing tasks.

Palletising robots:After farm produce has been picked and packed, it will often
need to be palletised before it can be shipped off to its next destination.This is a job
that can be performed using a forklift and trained forklift operator, however, it’s
also a task that can be easily automated using specialised palletising robots or
adapted robotic arms.

Spraying robots:Robotic arms are incredibly versatile, and they can be


programmed to undertake a wide range of maintenance tasks in addition to picking
and packing.This includes pruning plants to ensure the fruit can grow and weeding
areas of farmland. Other agricultural robots are designed to spray insecticides or to
spray water and nutrients and provide irrigation.Agricultural robots are also being
used to monitor PH or nutrient levels in soil, and to monitor crops and farms in
general.

Livestock robot:Agricultural robots can be employed on livestock farms, as


well as crop farms. In the same manner, they are commonly used to undertake
repetitive tasks and to improve safety and efficiency.
Examples of livestock applications include using automation to milk cows, to
spread feed or to monitor large areas of farmland where animals are grazing

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