World's first 'robot run' farm to open in Japan

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Agence France-Presse

World's first 'robot run' farm to open in Japan

AFP
February 1, 2016

Tokyo (AFP) - A Japanese firm said Monday it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops.

Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.

It hopes to boost that figure to half a million lettuce heads daily within five years.

The farm, measuring about 4,400 square metres (47,300 square feet), will have floor-to-ceiling shelves where the produce is grown.


Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/tech/worlds-first-robot-run-farm-open-japan-112851818.html

[FailureToCommunicate]

1. Mmmm. Okay. Are they going to use robot poop for the fertilizer?

[DetlefK]

2. I, for one, welcome our lettuce overlords.

[Marty McGraw]

3. something has to be able to cultivate

those Fukijima prefecture crops to get out to market.



I hope that was a joke, but these days... not so sure.

[forest444]

4. Domo arigato

Mr. Roboto!