Agricultural robot
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An agricultural robot or agribot is a robot
deployed for agricultural
purposes.
Robot
A robot is a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control. In practice a robot is usually an electro-mechanical machine that is guided by computer and electronic programming. Robots can be autonomous, semi-autonomous or...
deployed for agricultural
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
purposes.
Examples
- "Ag Ant", an inexpensive foot-long bot that works cooperatively.
- The Oracle Robot
- The Shear Magic Robot
- Fruit Picking Robot
- LSU's AgBot
- Harvest AutomationHarvest AutomationHarvest Automation, Inc. is a robotics startup founded by several former iRobot employees, including Joe Jones, the co-inventor of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. The company's goal is to find new applications for robots. Their first planned robot will be used at container farms to space apart...
is a company founded by former iRobotIRobotiRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 and incorporated in Delaware in 2000, the iRobot Corporation designs robots such as an autonomous home vacuum cleaner , the Scooba that scrubs and cleans hard floors, and military and police robots, such as the PackBot...
employees to develop robots for greenhouses - Strawberry picking robot from Robotic Harvesting and Agrobot.
- Casmobot next generation slope mower
- Fieldrobot Event is an competition in mobile agricultural robotics
- HortiBot - A Plant Nursing Robot ,
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