Japan set to get world’s first ‘robot-run’ farm
Tokyo, Feb 2: Japan is set to become home to world's first robot run farm which is likely to be operational by mid of the 2017.
This indoor grow house, measuring about 4,400 square metres, will have floor-to-ceiling shelves where the produce is grown. It is likely will produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.
This farm will be built by Kyoto-based vegetable factory operator Spread Co. Almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops will be carried out by robots in farm.
The
farm,
measuring
about
4,400
square
metres,
will
have
floor-to-ceiling
shelves
where
the
produce
is
grown.
"Seed
planting
will
still
be
done
by
people,
but
the
rest
of
the
process,
including
harvesting,
will
be
done
(by
industrial
robots),"
company
official
Koji
Morisada
said.
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The move to robot labour would chop personnel costs by about half and knock energy expenses down by nearly one third, Morisada added.
Shipments from the fully automated lettuce factory are expected to begin in summer 2017.
OneIndia News