December 28, 2009
Japan’s First Autonomous Agricultural Robot
According to an ancient folk song "Planting (rice) is never fun, Bent from up 'till the set of sun. Can not stand and can not sit, can not rest for a little bit". This is how planting rice used to be and oh well, some other countries do still have these traditional way.
However in Japan, planting will never be as cruel as it should be, because robots can now do the job. Fuji Heavy Industries, Japan's major conglomerate has developed an agricultural robot that can do the farming hard work autonomously.
The robot which runs on gas and is 2m long, 60cm wide and 1m high, is capable of orienting itself by emitting and receiving laser signals, measuring the distance with special reflective plates (which are placed at regular intervals of about 10 meters).
Fuji Heavy says the robot farmer can plant and cultivate fruits and vegetables by itself. It is planned to be available in the market in 2010 with a selling price of about $100,000.
Click here to read more about Japan's Agricultural Robot, Robot Farmer
Written by: John
Filed Under: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, Robotics Sensors
Tags: 1m, Agricultural Robot, Conglomerate, Farming, Folk Song, Fruits And Vegetables, Fuji Heavy Industries, Intervals, Japan, Job, Laser Signals, Little Bit, Planting Rice, Robots, Sun
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