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agricultural robotics
2012 Field Robot Event, June 28th – 30th
John Payne
16 Jun 2012
This will be the 10th edition of the Field Robot Event. Organized by Fontys University of Applied Sciences and Wageningen UR (University & Research), it will be held in Venlo, The Nether...
Agricultural robotics at the European Robotics Forum 2012
John Payne
16 Apr 2012
A press release issued by the European Robotics Platform website regarding agricultural robotics as a presence at the European Robotics Forum 2012 makes plain not only that there is a significant leve...
Australian research organization’s description of agricultural robotics
John Payne
09 Jan 2012
On a web page describing their current efforts in agricultural robotics, CSIRO ICT Centre describes the focus area this way:
The application of field robotics to agriculture is an emerging area of ...
Reforming agriculture through more sophisticated mechanization
John Payne
10 Dec 2011
Historically, at least since the mechanization of agriculture began in earnest, there have been two primary measures of agricultural productivity, the amount that could be grown on a given acreage and...
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Made in Brazil, with Marcelo Becker and Marcel de Sena Dall’Agnol
Podcast team
04 Nov 2011
Link to audio file (28:29)In today’s show, we take you all the way to Brazil. Marcelo Becker from the University of São Paulo (USP) talks to us about how mobile robots are going to help change ...
Agricultural robotics and employment
John Payne
12 Jun 2011
At least with regard to agriculture, the effect of robotics upon employment depends on the approach taken. If your goal is to further reduce the number of people deriving an income from farming, and y...
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Robots Podcast: Harvest automation, with Joe Jones
Podcast team
14 Jan 2011
Link to audio file (26:01)In today’s episode we look at a new market in robotics with huge potential, agriculture. With us, Joe Jones, co-founder of Harvest Automation and father of the Roomba...
The potential of agriculture as a market for robotics
John Payne
16 Aug 2010
When I imagine robots tending land, it's nearly always machines that are supported from above, on a beam that itself is supported by wheels running either on rails or in troughs that double as a deliv...
Why use robots, round 5
John Payne
16 Nov 2007
Figuratively speaking, a robot is a machine with a brain. They don't really have brains, of course; they have processors and programs, which would be depicted on some low-detail flowchart as lying be...
Getting there from here, round 2
John Payne
10 Nov 2007
While it's inevitable that agriculture will eventually incorporate robotics to some degree, what form that takes is a wide open question, one that, left to itself, would eventually find an answer driv...
Why use robots, round 3
John Payne
15 Sep 2007
Why use robots to do what people can do, when there are so many unemployed?
Before responding to that question, let me turn it around. Why, given that there are no laws preventing them f...
Getting there from here
John Payne
07 Jun 2007
If you look at the current state of agriculture, and also at the preponderance of robotics work related to it, there isn't much encouragement to be found for a vision of machines bringing better pract...
