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The Robo Reapers

Fully automated farms may not be functional yet, but robots are ploughing, sowing, reaping and, most importantly, picking fruits and veggies

Sci fi legend Isaac Asimov used the word robotics for the first time in his 1942 short story Runaround. Ever since, Asimov and many of his ilk have imagined agricultural worlds where superintelligent machines carry out farm production.

Make no mistake machines used in agriculture are an old story. Mechanisation and automation have been here for decades in areas such as seeding and harvesting of crops in the US and elsewhere. But there are certain

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