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Agriculture & Food · Recorded milestone

Fully robotic farms

Recorded year2017

Harper Adams University's Hands Free Hectare grows and harvests a barley crop using only robot tractors and drones, a world first.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.