An agricultural robot or agribot is a robot
deployed for agricultural purposes. The main area of application of robots in
agriculture is at the harvesting stage. Fruit picking robots, driverless
tractor / sprayer, and sheep shearing robots are designed to replace human
labour. The agricultural industry is behind other complementary industries in
using robots because the sort of jobs involved in agriculture are not
straightforward, and many repetitive tasks are not exactly the same every time.
In most cases, a lot of factors have to be considered (e.g., the size and
colour of the fruit to be picked) before the commencement of a task. Robots can
be used for other horticultural tasks such as pruning, weeding, spraying and
monitoring. Robots can also be used in livestock applications (livestock
robotics) such as milking, washing and castrating.
