Advancements in Agricultural Automation: A Comprehensive Review of Artificial Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics in Farming

Abstract

This paper discusses about the modern techniques implemented in the field of agriculture which shaped the traditional farming to the smart farming (Agriculture 4.0). The rapid rise in the global population is one among the main reasons, besides monitoring of crops health and yield requires a huge labor force, which is also another reason for promoting intelligent systems into agriculture sector. Conventional farming methods are not suitable to meet this demand, which led robotics to associate with on-field agriculture by means of robot-based technologies like wheeled robots, ground vehicles (manned and unmanned) and aerial vehicles (manned and unmanned) that led to explore the possible advancement in agriculture 3.0. Currently, the evolutionary techniques, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and IoT, are implemented in robotic vehicles to make them intelligent systems. Due to unprecedented climatic change and polluted ground water for the past few decades, the crops are being infested with new varieties of diseases. This requires new image processing techniques to classify the diseases based on color, texture and, shape of leaves. The incorporation of image processing technique into AI aids in deciding the appropriate amount of herbicide supplement to the plant based on the prediction of plant growth.