Robots ready as workers turn away from agri-food

Collecting eggs, packing tomatoes, weeding, checking animal welfare, harvesting fruits, and detecting pests in crops will all be performed by robots in the not-too-distant future, says Erik Pekkeriet, Business Development Manager for the Agro Food Robotics programme in the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, one of the world’s top-ranked universities for agricultural research.

In the Agro Food Robotics programme, Wageningen researchers work on development of robots in the intensive agriculture and food processing sectors, which are major sectors in the Netherlands.