Improving Agricultural Productivity: Use of Automation and Robotics

In the last few years, it is seen that robotics have been extensively adopted in the agricultural industry to enhance its productivity and competency. New trends and researches focus on the agricultural field of robotics that looks forward to building a group of small-scale robots that will collaborate to optimize farming practices. Objectives: This research paper emphasizes on the deployment of robotics and the use of automation in agricultural applications. It explores the practicality of these robots towards agricultural development and also the perspective of farmers on such robots used. Research methodology/analysis: Analysis of the data collected from certain surveys of farmers on the use of robots and automation in farming is used to find a descriptive result of a future perception of agricultural industries. Application of such Agri-bots for different methods of farming and the relation between farmers and automation is collected from secondary data retrieval. Finding: There are different robots and different levels of automated machinery used in the agricultural industry, along with farmer’s point of view on robots, the paper will be covering the different Agri-bots that are deployed and automated for specific agricultural methods. Implications of the study: This paper will be useful to the agricultural industries, and will give a clear idea of the level of investment that should be implemented on automated guidance systems and robots in farming with respect to the decrease in farmers and increase in automation. Originality: The paper discusses the farmer’s perspective on automation in farmer. It gives a glimpse of whether the farmers are sceptical about the safety and terms of reliability in using these agricultural robots on their land. This paper will also include the number of human interactions between these autonomous machines and robots. The number of such robots with different levels of human dependency and full autonomous functionality will be discussed.