Robots in agriculture: prospects, impacts, ethics, and policy

R Sparrow, M Howard - precision agriculture, 2021 - Springer
Agriculture is both the site of development of important new technologies and a key area of
application of technologies developed elsewhere. It is little wonder, then, that many thinkers …

Precision farming at the nexus of agricultural production and the environment

R Finger, SM Swinton, N El Benni… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Precision farming enables agricultural management decisions to be tailored spatially and
temporally. Site-specific sensing, sampling, and managing allow farmers to treat a field as a …

Agricultural robotics: the future of robotic agriculture

T Duckett, S Pearson, S Blackmore, B Grieve… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that
generates over {\pounds} 108bn pa, with 3.9 m employees in a truly international industry …

Robotics and labour in agriculture. A context consideration

V Marinoudi, CG Sørensen, S Pearson… - Biosystems Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Complementarity and substitution between labor and automation in
agriculture.•Routine vs. non-routine and cognitive vs. manual tasks in agriculture.• …

Responsible development of autonomous robotics in agriculture

DC Rose, J Lyon, A de Boon, M Hanheide, S Pearson - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the potential contributions of autonomous robots to agricultural sustainability, social,
legal and ethical issues threaten adoption. We discuss how responsible innovation …

[HTML][HTML] Why the low adoption of robotics in the farms? Challenges for the establishment of commercial agricultural robots

G Gil, DE Casagrande, LP Cortés… - Smart Agricultural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In a world that requires sustainable agricultural practices, quantitative plant-by-plant and
field status monitoring can be advantageous to all farmers by optimizing their farm …

On the regulatory framework for last-mile delivery robots

T Hoffmann, G Prause - Machines, 2018 - mdpi.com
Autonomously driving delivery robots are developed all around the world, and the first
prototypes are tested already in last-mile deliveries of packages. Estonia plays a leading …

Unequal futures of rural mobility: Challenges for a “Smart Countryside”

G Bosworth, L Price, M Collison, C Fox - Local Economy, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Current transport strategy in the UK is strongly urban-focused, with assumptions that
technological advances in mobility will simply trickle down into rural areas. This article …

The adoption of precision agriculture enabling technologies in Swiss outdoor vegetable production: a Delphi study

J Ammann, C Umstätter, N El Benni - Precision Agriculture, 2022 - Springer
Digital technologies are a promising means to tackle the increasing global challenges (eg,
climate change, water pollution, soil degradation) and revolutionising agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Co-designing a landscape experiment to investigate diversified cropping systems

K Grahmann, M Reckling, I Hernández-Ochoa… - Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
CONTEXT Intensive food and feed production in sole-cropped, large fields with high fertilizer
and pesticide inputs to achieve high yields, has contributed to detrimental environmental …