Robots and transformations of work in farm: a systematic review of the literature and a research agenda

An integrated socio-cyber-physical system framework to assess responsible digitalisation in agriculture: A first application with Living Labs in Europe

“…We however sharpen earlier assessments, going beyond a pessimistic or optimistic dichotomy associated to digitalisation (Daum, 2021), by specifying effects and trade-offs in terms of enabling, disenabling, boosting and depleting impacts of digital agriculture, forestry and rural areas. Leveraging on these concepts and observations, this paper contributed to the existing body of literature aiming to explain, classify, and anticipate the consequences of digitalisation (Martin et al, 2022). Our concepts might be used to interpret general mechanisms by which digitalisation can (positively or negatively, and with different intensity) influence multiple sustainability domains and areas of impacts (Rolandi et al, 2021) or to anticipate the emerging trade-offs to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (Herrero et al, 2021).…”

Adoption of autonomous robots in the soft fruit sector: Grower perspectives in the UK

“…We restrict our discussion here to the application of non-static autonomous robots in farming. The implementation of static robots in dairying is more widespread [20,21], whilst part automation for example in the form of autosteer or variable rate technology has also experienced wide uptake in some places [22]. We focus particularly on the soft fruit sector, where autonomous robotic solutions are not commercially scaled, and on comparable sectors that have already adopted forms of robotic solutions (e.g.…”

“…Research on the so-called fourth agricultural technology revolution has found that Artificial Intelligence, robotics, drones (etc.) are hyped in popular and policy discourse around the world [12,18,19,21,59]. Yet, these technologies may not be ready to solve immediate challenges, and thus optimising the use of existing solutions may prove more effective [60].…”

Le futur du travail en agriculture

“…D'autres considèrent le numérique comme une opportunité pour aider à la gestion de systèmes agroécologiques complexes, et pour faciliter les échanges entre pairs et avec les consommateurs. En tout cas, le numérique apparaît comme une source de transformation radicale du travail réel au quotidien (robots, Global Positioning Systems [GPS] et capteurs qui allègent le travail, « augmentent » l'homme au travail, décuplent ses capacités d'observation du milieu et des animaux) et de la dimension gestionnaire du métier de chef d'exploitation (nouvelles informations, nouveau régime d'aide à la décision) (Martin et al, 2022). Cette révolution suscite des questions sur l'éthique du « big data » (Carbonell, 2016), le sens du travail, les relations aux animaux, l'autonomie décisionnelle, les nouvelles formes d'organisation du travail et des relations avec les autres (Hostiou et al, 2017 ;Bretschneider, 2021).…”