Autonomous Robot Run Farms

Robot farm successfully plants and harvests field alone

English research team first in the world to complete farming cycle with robots

Driverless combine and tractor farm field of barely and did so more efficiently than humans. The pilot project used smaller farm equipment than typically seen to drill channels for seed at more precise levels and apply herbicides and fungicides more specifically, making that part of farming more efficient than human methods.

Smaller automated farm equipment more precise

The smaller equipment also allows for less damage to the field and the ability for more precise cuts during harvesting. Large combines in use on farms now, like in the US, cut as wide as possible to harvest the fields faster, saving time for the farmer.

But in the future with automated equipment, the robots can work the fields more precisely using several much smaller machines rather than a few large ones. Farmers would not have to be directly involved in working the fields, leaving them to accomplish other things.

Farming has always taken the lead in the use of technology 

Historically, farms have been the first to embrace new technology compared to other sectors and before mainstream culture. They used heavy machinery with gas engines in farming before the industrial revolution got started, embraced new chemical applications much sooner than was seen in commercial household use, and have been flying drones for years, not to mention the use of airplanes for more than half a century.  Article