World's first 'robot run' farm to open in Japan
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
(14,014 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Marty McGraw
(1,024 posts)those Fukijima prefecture crops to get out to market.
I hope that was a joke, but these days... not so sure.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Mr. Roboto!