Dr David Rose was interviewed for a piece in The Times on the role of autonomous robots in farming.
David said:
A farmer now has a computer spitting out so much data on each individual cow that [s]he has to sift through it and learn new skills to try and repurpose it. So actually it’s not freed his or her time and it’s a different type of stress. Instead of blind optimism we need to identify where benefits and disadvantages of new agricultural technology will occur and for whom.
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