Robots Deliver Precision Farming Down to Individual Plant

Over the past 50 years, mechanization has dramatically changed the face of farming across the world, writes Ben Wodecki at IoT World Today. With roots in manual labor, farming today employs huge behemoth vehicles such as combine harvesters to round up crops at scale.

But one U.K.-based robotics firm is looking to change farmyard operations using a much smaller approach. How small? Farming focused on individual plants using AI-powered robots.

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That is the business of the aptly named Small Robot Company (SRC), which uses lightweight robots to improve food production by planting, monitoring and treating single, arable crops autonomously.

The implications of SRC’s technology can be a game-changer: Instead of spraying a whole field with chemicals, robots can see which plants need weeding and zap the errant growth with electricity. According to the company, up to 95% of chemicals are wasted. Moreover, black-grass weeds lead to 400 million pounds a year in lost revenue, the company added.

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