The impact of regulation on autonomous crop equipment in Europe

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  • J. Lowenberg-DeBoer
  • K. Behrendt
  • M. Canavari
  • M-H Ehlers
  • A. Gabriel
  • Xianglin Huang
  • S. Kopfinger
  • R. Lenain
  • A. Meyer-Aurich
  • G. Milics
  • K. Oluseyi Olagunju
  • Pedersen, Søren Marcus
  • D. Rose
  • O. Spykman
  • B. Tisseyre
  • Zdrahal

Governments required on-site human supervision for the crop robots being tested throughout Europe in 2020. For arable farms, initial evidence suggested that requiring on-site human supervision could lead to robots being used on larger farms with large fields where one human can supervise multiple robots. In spite of the technical progress in crop robotics, the legal, regulatory and policy issues around this technology have hardly been explored. Some observers suggest that, at this point, those issues may be a bigger challenge to implementation of crop robotics than the technical aspects.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPrecision agriculture ’21
EditorsJohn V. Stafford
Number of pages7
PublisherWageningen Academic Publishers
Publication date2021
Pages711-717
Chapter85
ISBN (Print)978-90-8686-363-1
ISBN (Electronic)978-90-8686-916-9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event13th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA) - Budapest, Hungary
Duration: 18 Jul 202122 Jul 2021

Conference

Conference13th European Conference on Precision Agriculture (ECPA)
LandHungary
ByBudapest
Periode18/07/202122/07/2021

    Research areas

  • autonomous, robot, regulation, on-site supervision, economies of scale

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