Farmers robots will replace humans in the field

People who graze animals, grow crops and drive rickshaws to harvest agricultural products are about to dominate the fields. These robots are expected to be the future of agriculture.

Humans have been farming for thousands of years since the first fields were cultivated and the animals began to be domesticated since the Stone Age. But the development of technology soon brought people out of the field of traditional work in the field. Robots capable of grazing animals and pushing trailers through mud have been tested in Australian fields. In the UK, robots can pick up green vegetables 6 times faster than humans.

SwagBot Robot.(Photo: Australian Center).

SwagBot - a cowboy in Australia - is built at a low cost, but extremely powerful. This robot is used to work on large farms and has thick soil mats in Australia. SwagBot has demonstrated its ability to work in an experiment last month in a field near Newcastle, Australia.

The experiment showed that SwagBot can graze animals, find a way around obstacles such as ditches, marshes, logs and things that are usually on a typical farm. The battery-powered robot and the wheels of the robot can move at a speed of 15-20km / hour on flat terrain.

Over the years, the University of Sydney labs intend to let robots control their bodies. Because of this, robots can perform tasks such as counting the number of animals or weeding, Professor (Professor) Salah Sukkarieh said.

During the experiment, robots follow what is required and make the cows frightened . "It is clear that the cows are scared and run away. That's what we expect," Professor Salah Sukkarieh told Mashable Australia. In New Scientist, GS also said: "In the past few months, we are looking for algorithms that allow robots to count the number of animals."

Robot can harvest agricultural products at.(Photo: Lincoln University).

At the same time in the UK, a robot is improving its ability to harvest agricultural products. Lincoln University is developing robots to pick up broccoli that can identify broccoli with an accuracy of up to 95%. Robot picking broccoli uses a 3D camera from Microsoft Kinect game console.

"Broccoli is one of the most widely grown vegetables in the world and is completely harvested by hand, very expensive. This technology is seen as an important step in developing automatic robots. In the field of agricultural products harvest, and these robots can be used to harvest in many different fields, " said Professor Tom Duckett, head of this project at Lincoln University.

Field of broccoli looking through 3D camera.(Photo: Lincoln University).

Researchers have invented imaging tools so that robots can identify broccoli."Now we are taking the next step in the plan. We have found a solution for the image part, which is quite complicated. A robot needs a 3D camera that provides x, y, z coordinates of The camera needs to determine the exact location of the location so that the robot knows where to be picked up. Determine the "z" depth, or coordinates, that always make it difficult for the camera , " Dr. Simon Pearson - Lincoln Institute director for technology in agricultural food said on MailOnline.

According to Dr. Simon Pearson, in the future this technology will be expanded and used to harvest on apple, pear, potato, pepper and cucumber fields.

Robots are increasingly playing an important role in human life. An office in Milton Keynes is using a management robot to count the number of employees and clean up the office. California offices have begun using protective robots to patrol the office. A study conducted last year showed that 70% of office managers will consider using robots in their workplace. And half of the managers are very pleased with using robots to replace people.