By Ard0230 November 15, 2019

Robotics & Artificial intelligence

Where is it being applied?

An objective force that moves with its own consensus is set in wave by an automation. It is made up of several mechanical and intellectual organs, making the workers themselves “be no more than the conscious limbs of automation” (Giddings and Lister, 2011, p.80) In agriculture automation “technologies include robots, drones, autonomous tractors, and artificial intelligence that replace human labour in manual farm tasks (Rotz et al., 2019, p.115). Miles (2019) suggest that within precision agriculture algorithmically controlled automation is bulging in the fantasy of technology. He argues that to get the maximum output from machine learning “farmers will eventually need to transfer authority to machines and algorithms altogether” (Miles, 2019, p.4). This is undertaken by allowing the gathered data to be used by the computer and base and produce its own outcome without the need of the farmer. It could be argued that this is not far from reality.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is cognitive analytics that taken from managing information through predictive and narrow analytics. Reasoning analytics becomes its informed advisory that comes to formulate a decision. It then becomes Artificial intelligence once “the process whereby the system actually makes the decision” (Boobier, 2018, p.37).  In Boston Massachusetts autonomous harvesting is introduced. Root AI is a robot that uses artificial intelligence along with vision sensing sight to harvest straight from the vine when it is ready.  Anandan (2019) suggest that Roots hardware combined with complex software takes advantage of gathered data to do work in the field. Root is designed as a machine learning algorithm to enable its uses to handle complex physical work in the field. Gravalos, Avgousti, Gialamas, Alfieris and Paschalidis (2019) points out an integrated robotic system that focuses on optimising irrigation water by supervision. It is described that a gantry robotic system has the capabilities to cultivate agricultural crops using its history. He suggests robots that are autonomous can “take care of crops on small patches of land to improve plants yield while saving irrigation water, nutrients and overall energy consumption” (Gravalos, Avgousti, Gialamas, Alfieris and Paschalidis, 2019, p.198). Several agricultural robots are also currently being developed, at the University of Illinois Ag Ant robots were developed. These are a foot-long low budget robot designed to be a substitute from expensive farm machinery. They work via sensor, an autonomous technology that directs its destination. Ag Ant robots can find “weeds, insects, or disease, sampling the soil for nutrients, and application of pesticides or herbicides” (Yaghoubi et al., 2013, p.3).

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