Robotic Systems for Future Farming
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Agriculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 67
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Interests: mechanical design; machine learning; artificial intelligence
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Dear Colleagues,
Agriculture faces significant challenges globally, such as labor shortages, environmental sustainability, food security, and resource efficiency. Robotic systems integrated with advanced sensor technologies offer transformative solutions, reshaping traditional farming practices into precision-driven, sustainable, and highly productive systems. The synergy between robotics and sensors enables enhanced crop monitoring, automated pest and disease detection, precise application of inputs, and improved decision-making capabilities through data-driven insights.
This Special Issue invites original research and comprehensive reviews highlighting recent developments, innovative technologies, and practical applications of robotic systems specifically designed for modern and future agricultural practices. Submissions should emphasize sensor integration, sensing methodologies, data processing, and practical implementation of robotic solutions in farming.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Robotics for precision agriculture;
- Sensor-integrated autonomous agricultural vehicles;
- AI-enabled robotic sensing systems;
- Multi-sensor data fusion for farming robots;
- Vision-based robotic systems for plant monitoring;
- Robotic harvesting systems;
- Agricultural robot navigation and localization;
- Environmental sensing for automated farming;
- Smart sensor networks in robotic agriculture;
- IoT-enabled robotic management of farms.
Dr. Xiaojun Jin
Dr. Dong Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- robotic farming
- precision agriculture
- agricultural robotics
- AI-enabled sensors
- sensor fusion
- autonomous systems
- smart farming
- environmental sensing
- IoT in agriculture
- agricultural automation
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