Back in the good old days, farming was easy. Throw some seeds in the ground, keep it watered, pray to your preferred deity to spare your crops from pestilence and wait for harvest season.

The sharp increase could also see a net gain in “new roles” for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the “seismic shift” in how we work with machines and computer programmes, the forum estimated.

Globally, research in Precision Viticulture is moving fast (in scientific terms).

How many jobs are vulnerable to automation? Plenty of people ask that question, and plenty of people try to give numerical answers. A recent study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said that about 46 percent of jobs have a better-than-even chance of being automated.

A industrial revolution  involving convergence of the physical, biological and digital) is under way.

Four ways robotics will influence agriculture in 2019-
As ever, farmers are turning to technology to address a number of pressing problems, such as the growing global shortage of food and labor.

Food production needs to increase by 70 per cent to feed the nine billion population projected for 2050. Fortunately, the industry is benefiting from some radical thinking. Here are the cutting edge technologies taking farming towards this goal.

The Future of Food 2040 report, to be officially launched at the NFU Conference on 19 February, looks into the future to explore what the landscape of British food and farming will look like in 20 years.

A farming robot revolution is imminent, with fruit-picking machines nearly ready to roll into the fields and start replacing human workers. 

The future of farming: Driverless tractors, drones and robots. How is the agriculture industry changing as digital technology develops?

In the developed world it is becoming increasingly hard to source labour to do some of the less pleasant tasks on poultry farms, and some argue that a key way to improve welfare is to improve the amount of environmental monitoring that takes place on farm.

The first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, which means machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks.

Robots are taking over farms faster than anyone saw coming, as the first fully autonomous farm equipment is becoming commercially available, meaning machines will be able to completely take over a multitude of tasks.

While automation should boost the economy as a whole, it is likely to create greater inequality as employment losses are concentrated in certain industries and countries. Manufacturing could lose 20 million positions by 2030, making the sector 8.5% smaller than “if robots were not remaking the market,” according to the research firm’s report.

No one knows what the jobs of the future will look like, so it has become immensely difficult to solve the challenge of deepening unemployment.

Agriculture robots -

With labor costs rising and a labor pool that is shrinking, growers are trying to find ways in which to keep their operations running smoothly and competitively.

Robotics in farming and agriculture are allowing European farmers to work in a safer environment, increasing yield and helping to develop more sustainable farming, in asparagus farming and other sectors.

A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers.

Researchers have found that pesticide exposure impairs bees' social behavior and interactions.