Some industries eventually become obsolete due to new technological advances. You might be hard-pressed to find a payphone these days, for example. But one sure constant in life is that people will always need to eat and robotics can help support the global food supply. One trending robotics application in agriculture is the use of geomapping combined with autonomous precision seeding.
Using this advanced technology, farmers can see the soil properties at every section of their fields. A robotic seeding attachment on a tractor can then sow the seeds at exactly the right depth and location to provide for the best possible yield. Moving forward, it’s expected that robotics will have an expanding role in agriculture. Robots can take on such tasks as thinning and pruning, crop micro-spraying, crop harvesting and even herding livestock.