From manual farming to automatic and robotic based farming: AN Introduction

Human beings rely on the food to survive. How to achieve productive and efficient farming and therefore provide sufficiently food for human beings will always be an indispensable topic. After the development of advanced robotic machines, the automatic/robotic based farming has become a trend in the agricultural arena. Traditionally, there is dependence on manpower for farming in agriculture. The downside of using man-power is that it relies on a large amount of people and has less efficiency. Shifting to automatic machines, can greatly help farmers in the farming field. Automatic and advanced robotic based farming will become a promising trend in the agricultural and farming areas. In this chapter, we briefly present the current farming machineries in use at the moment and some issues that we face.