As someone who grew up on a farm in Somerset, I can tell you that farmers are income-poor but asset-rich, if farmers can essentially rent agricultural robots and pay only for their labour, this could change the industry irrevocably.
Agribot, Tom is pictured – image courtesy of Small Robot Company. Small Robot Company are hoping to do just that, offering up their agricultural robots or ‘agribots’ Tom, Dick, Harry and Wilma, on a pay-as-you go basis. Pay-as-you-go agribot system Ben Scott-Robinson, co-founder and Joe Allnutt, head of Robotics of Small Robot…
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