The aim is not to replace everyone working on a farm, but to maximise productivity, and also offer workers the chance to improve their skills and value to the business.
“It’s definitely becoming harder and harder to get the labour,” said Ben Ayre, lead engineer for the university’s intelligent vehicles project.
“Having these robotics enables us to get the most out of all of the the staff that we do have to be able to be as productive as possible.”
Alicia Feledziak, from Warwick Agr-Tech, was also keen to stress the opportunities for farm workers.
“There might be some roles where instead of doing some of the more laborious tasks you might start to look at having workers be up-skilled to things like fleet management,” she said.
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