I have been seeing a lot of robotic AI being implemented within many different industries over the past few weeks, with robotic machines having the potential to enable the farming process to become very seemless with 24 hour care on crops with much less labour costs. This industy 4.0 revolution Farming as a service, allows for back end software to manage stock, cash flow and promote quicker more effective farming practices. AI and machine Learning (ML) can be used to detect crop life, withering and eliminate weeds to ensure the product is at its best thus enabling the land owner to sell more crops and earn more money.
This technology aims to change the farming industry creating more educated and efficient farmers across the world, essentially using robotics and AI to establish a global modernization within the farming industry. Following the events of the recent pandemic farmers took a hard hit when most of their revenue was cut in half due to restaurants closing down, this meant that a large source of income was cut leaving farmers to throw masses of produce into landfills.
However, technology does not just offer better farming techniques and increase efficiency, developments in AI and Machine Learning within the robotics field shows that with the power of the internet products such as drones automated weed removal systems and crop distibution technology can connect and recieve large amounts of data regarding world events which may determine how much product is sold or wasted. This means that even before a seed is planted autonomous AI can figure out the amount of seeds needed to deliver the demand and minimize waste. Stopping incidents like in the video above.
In conclusion, farming will become completely automated and easily manageable via a Content Management System to which land owners will check the progress from time to time and be able to update investors with a report regarding the progress of the crop growth as well as projected sales. This could easily make anyone a farmer, budget permitting, allowing robots to do the work while the income comes flying in.
