麻豆社

Agriculture on autopilot. Robin Markwell explores the future of robots in agriculture at the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology with its Founder and Director Professor Simon Pearson. Simon shows Robin a range of robots that they have been developing across campus including a mushroom harvester, a lettuce picker and a robot sheepdog! He meets robot developers like Kim Cox from Agaricus Robotics and Jaime Pulido from Saga Robotics and chats with Professor Simon Parsons about the pros and cons of introducing Artificial Intelligence into agriculture.

Presented and produced by Robin Markwell for 麻豆社 Audio in Bristol.