{"id":148750,"date":"2022-10-23T14:25:52","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-unmanned-agricultural-robot-could-transform-the-industry"},"modified":"2022-10-23T14:25:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T19:25:52","slug":"this-unmanned-agricultural-robot-could-transform-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/this-unmanned-agricultural-robot-could-transform-the-industry","title":{"rendered":"This unmanned agricultural robot could transform the industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-unmanned-agricultural-robot-could-transform-the-industry2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New Zealand-based agritech company Robotics Plus has launched an autonomous multi-use, modular vehicle for agriculture that could revolutionize the industry by alleviating ongoing labor shortages and simplifying agricultural tasks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticsplus.co.nz\/news\/robotics-plus-unveils-autonomous-modular-vehicle-to-alleviate-agriculture-labour-shortages\/\" title=\"according to a press release\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">according to a press release<\/a> by the firm published on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><b>Optimizing tasks<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The robot can be supervised in a <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/innovation\/the-future-of-agriculture-is-robotic\" title=\"fleet of vehicles\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">fleet of vehicles<\/a> by a single human operator, using a combination of vision systems and other technologies to sense its environment. This empowers it to optimize tasks and allow intelligent and targeted application of inputs such as sprays. It is suitable for a variety of jobs including spraying, weed control, mulching, mowing and crop analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand-based agritech company Robotics Plus has launched an autonomous multi-use, modular vehicle for agriculture that could revolutionize the industry by alleviating ongoing labor shortages and simplifying agricultural tasks, according to a press release by the firm published on Thursday. Optimizing tasks The robot can be supervised in a fleet of vehicles by a single [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}