Robots drive efficiencies in European agriculture

Robots will make many farm tasks less dangerous and unhealthy, and will improve the overall safety of workers — that is according to the European Parliament’s science and technology options assessment panel.

They can also be a big factor in the large decline in the number of people, in particular youths, who are involved in agriculture.

For example, since 1990 in the Netherlands the percentage of people employed in agriculture has plummeted from 30% to 2.6%.