Robot tractors & sheep-herding drones: Britain’s futuristic new farm workers

‘Artificial intelligence (AI) systems known as ‘robo farmers’ could soon grow crops and tend livestock around Britain while their human controllers need never set foot in a field again, researchers say.
Engineering staff at Harper Adams University in Shropshire are adapting farm machinery to create small autonomous tractors and harvesters to grow a hectare of crops. They will be monitored by drones and special ground-roaming vehicles and will be harvested next August.
“There’s no technological barrier to automated field agriculture. This project gives us the opportunity to prove this and change current public perception,” researcher Kit Franklin told the Times.’

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