A team from the Universities of Reading and Lincoln have had a comment piece accepted in the journal Nature Food. The paper entitled ‘Responsible development of autonomous robotics in agriculture’ explores how responsible innovation can be practised in this area and looks at how farmers and other publics have been engaged thus far in projects from around the world. It concludes by arguing that “the success or failure of autonomous robots in agriculture will not rest on the limits of our technical enterprise, but on our ability to include society and maturity to listen, learn, and respond.”
Part of the Robot Highways project. David Rose, Jessica Lyon, and Auvikki de Boon are co-authors from the Change in Agriculture group. David discussed this on BBC Farming Today the day after publication.
You can read it here.