Current status and future challenges in implementing and upscaling vertical farming systems

SH Van Delden, M SharathKumar, M Butturini… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Vertical farming can produce food in a climate-resilient manner, potentially emitting zero
pesticides and fertilizers, and with lower land and water use than conventional agriculture …

Technological revolutions in smart farming: Current trends, challenges & future directions

V Sharma, AK Tripathi, H Mittal - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022 - Elsevier
With increasing population, the demand for agricultural productivity is rising to meet the goal
of “Zero Hunger”. Consequently, farmers have optimized the agricultural activities in a …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in agriculture robotics: A state-of-the-art review and challenges ahead

LFP Oliveira, AP Moreira, MF Silva - Robotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
The constant advances in agricultural robotics aim to overcome the challenges imposed by
population growth, accelerated urbanization, high competitiveness of high-quality products …

Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting: Recent developments and future challenges

H Zhou, X Wang, W Au, H Kang, C Chen - Precision Agriculture, 2022 - Springer
Intelligent robots for fruit harvesting have been actively developed over the past decades to
bridge the increasing gap between feeding a rapidly growing population and limited labour …

Actuators and sensors for application in agricultural robots: A review

D Xie, L Chen, L Liu, L Chen, H Wang - Machines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, with the rapid development of science and technology, agricultural robots
have gradually begun to replace humans, to complete various agricultural operations …

An overview of cooperative robotics in agriculture

C Lytridis, VG Kaburlasos, T Pachidis, M Manios… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agricultural robotics has been a popular subject in recent years from an academic as well as
a commercial point of view. This is because agricultural robotics addresses critical issues …

Machine learning for smart agriculture and precision farming: towards making the fields talk

TA Shaikh, WA Mir, T Rasool, S Sofi - Archives of Computational Methods …, 2022 - Springer
In almost every sector, data-driven business, the digitization of the data has generated a
data tsunami. In addition, man-to-machine digital data handling has magnified the …

Soft grippers for automatic crop harvesting: A review

E Navas, R Fernández, D Sepúlveda, M Armada… - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption
of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally …

Selective harvesting robotics: current research, trends, and future directions

G Kootstra, X Wang, PM Blok, J Hemming… - Current Robotics …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review The world-wide demand for agricultural products is rapidly
growing. However, despite the growing population, labor shortage becomes a limiting factor …

A review on multirobot systems in agriculture

C Ju, J Kim, J Seol, HI Son - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural multirobot systems (MRSs) are expected to be essential in future agriculture.
Therefore, MRSs comprising an aerial robot, a ground robot, and a manipulator are being …