Making Agriculture More Intelligent: Progress of Agricultural Robots

Abstract

Robotic technology has been wide used in different areas, such as home service, health care, advanced manufacturing, and agricultural industry [1-4]. Agricultural robot is a kind of automation equipment, which takes agricultural products as the operation objects with environmental perception and automated working function [5]. It is the outcome of the rapid development of information technology. The use of agricultural robots can effectively improve production efficiency, reduce the labor burden of farmers and solve the problem of labor shortage. At present, great progress have been made in the field of agricultural robot. Robots adapting to different needs have emerged one after another, such as pesticide spraying robots, grafting robots, picking robots, harvesting robots [6-9]. The extensive use of agricultural robots is promoting the modern agricultural production to be increasingly intensive and large-scaled.