World's 1st 'robot run' farm to come up in 2017
Japan-based food technology firm Spread Ltd on Monday announced that it will open the world's first fully-automated farm by mid-2017. Robots will handle all the operations in the farm from watering plants to harvesting while planting of seed will be done manually, a company official said. The farm, measuring about 47,300 square feet will be used to produce lettuce heads. 