Robots in agriculture: prospects, impacts, ethics, and policy

Economics of robots and automation in field crop production

(2019) James Lowenberg-DeBoer et al.   PRECISION AGRICULTURE

Impact of automatic milking systems on dairy cattle producers’ reports of milking labour management, milk production and milk quality

(2018) C. Tse et al.   Animal

Exploring the relationship between farm size and productivity: Evidence from the Australian grains industry

(2018) Yu Sheng et al.   FOOD POLICY

Farm size and productivity growth in the United States Corn Belt

(2018) Nigel Key   FOOD POLICY

Precision Livestock Farming and Farmers’ Duties to Livestock

(2018) Ian Werkheiser   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Can You Repair What You Own?

(2018) Agam Shah   MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

“If they don’t tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?” Trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming

(2018) Emma Jakku et al.   NJAS-WAGENINGEN JOURNAL OF LIFE SCIENCES

Farming deaths – an ongoing problem

(2017) Roger W. Byard   Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology

Managing Socio-Ethical Challenges in the Development of Smart Farming: From a Fragmented to a Comprehensive Approach for Responsible Research and Innovation

(2017) C. Eastwood et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Technology: The Future of Agriculture

(2017) Anthony King   NATURE

When human beings are like drunk robots: Driverless vehicles, ethics, and the future of transport

(2017) Robert Sparrow et al.   TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Agricultural robots for field operations: Concepts and components

(2016) Avital Bechar et al.   BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Towards agrobots: Identification of the yaw dynamics and trajectory tracking of an autonomous tractor

(2015) Erkan Kayacan et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE

Diversity in agricultural technology adoption: How are automatic milking systems used and to what end?

(2014) Rebecca L. Schewe et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Productivity and farm size in Australian agriculture: reinvestigating the returns to scale

(2014) Yu Sheng et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

Grasping devices and methods in automated production processes

(2014) Gualtiero Fantoni et al.   CIRP ANNALS-MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY

Harvesting Robots for High-value Crops: State-of-the-art Review and Challenges Ahead

(2014) C. Wouter Bac et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the "other 99 percent"

(2014) D. H. Autor   SCIENCE

Robotic milking technologies and renegotiating situated ethical relationships on UK dairy farms

(2013) Lewis Holloway et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Accurate 3D-vision-based obstacle detection for an autonomous train

(2013) Johann Weichselbaum et al.   COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY

Agricultural Robotics: Unmanned Robotic Service Units in Agricultural Tasks

(2013) Fernando Alfredo Auat Cheein et al.   IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine

Review: Automation and meat quality-global challenges.

(2013) Shai Barbut   MEAT SCIENCE

Changes in Australian agriculture and land use: implications for future food security

(2012) Joanne Millar et al.   International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Invited review: The impact of automatic milking systems on dairy cow management, behavior, health, and welfare

(2012) J.A. Jacobs et al.   JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE

Design and control of an apple harvesting robot

(2011) Zhao De-An et al.   BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Food security and biodiversity: can we have both? An agroecological analysis

(2009) Michael Jahi Chappell et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Origami-based robotic paper-and-board packaging for food industry

(2009) J.S. Dai et al.   TRENDS IN FOOD SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Autonomous robotic weed control systems: A review

(2007) D.C. Slaughter et al.   COMPUTERS AND ELECTRONICS IN AGRICULTURE