Rice Planting RiceBot Farms Fields, Wins Prize
January 5th, 2009
A rice planting robot developed by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization in Japan is the grand prize winner of the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 2008 Robot Awards. The ricebot is the first of it’s kind to be completely automated, through the use of GPS and gyros that figure out its position in the field and keep the rice planting all orderly.
They say that production is about 10 years away, but I’m thinking it will happen much sooner. Everything is automatic aside from the driving of the machines, a job still safely in human hands.
