Robot Farmers On The Way

CNBC, via Big Picture Agriculture:

Another area primed for robotics is the farming industry. Farmers cannot find enough people to do the the field work, so crop dusting has become and up and coming technologies.

There are currently robot tractors and robot helicopters that exist that can coordinate and perform harvesting and crop dusting without humans, and this technology is ready to be adopted whenever a business model is figured out, Cummings said.

"The technology is pretty much ready to go. ... I think it's just making the connection to the business model. ... I think we are there, we are on the cusp of that, but we just need the business model," Cummings said.

Cummings estimates though that it will be about one to three years when these types of robotic farming equipment will be in use.

Damn, they are coming for my job.