Automation and Robots for a new age of Agriculture and Forestry

Abstract

Agriculture and forests are fundamental to sustain the world population. Both are fundamental to provide us with food, oxygen, wood, and raw materials for clothes or even furniture. Since they generate fundamental inputs to our survival, as a society, we have explored intensively agriculture and forest without considering the limited resources available on earth, and the need for a balance between plants, soil, water, animals, insects (sustainability). This overexploitation of agriculture and forests has given a fundamental contribution to increase our living quality, during the last century. However, it has also contributed to climate change, to the waste and overuse of nutrients, water, farm chemicals products, and soil. From this point of view, and according to a technology, we can rise some questions.

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