Japan ‘Dream Project’: 600 Acre Farm with Autonomous Robot Workers
January 7th, 2012
Does anyone understand how LEDs are supposed to replace pesticides?
Under an agriculture ministry plan, unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs keeping rice, wheat, soybeans, fruit and vegetables safe until robots can put them in boxes.
Anyway, this sounds like it could have been lifted right out of some 1980s era anime film.
Via: AFP:
Japan is planning a futuristic farm where robots do the lifting in an experimental project on land swamped by the March tsunami, the government said Thursday.
Under an agriculture ministry plan, unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs keeping rice, wheat, soybeans, fruit and vegetables safe until robots can put them in boxes.
Carbon dioxide produced by machinery working on the up to 250-hectare (600 acre) site will be channeled back to crops to boost their growth and reduce reliance on chemical fertilizers, the Nikkei newspaper said.
The agricultural ministry will begin on-site research later this year with a plan to spend around four billion yen ($52 million) over the next six years, a ministry official said.
Land in Miyagi prefecture, some 300 kilometres (200 miles) north of Tokyo, which was flooded by seawater on March 11, has been earmarked for the so-called “Dream Project”.
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January 7th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
@ Kevin
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm…..MC2603179/
http://www.newscientist.com/ar…..stink.html
http://www.newscientist.com/ga…..t-robots/6