Post by Michael Carter

This is the first time I see a publication of this quality and depth on the future of robots, given our demographic evolution. Well done Jean-Louis. Personally, when you see the past desertification of our European mountain terraces, since today’s agricultural mechanisation needs flat ground, I have always wondered when my favourite, beautiful Himalayan worked terraces in Nepal and elsewhere will also be deserted as the cost of labour catches up with the rest of the world; UNLESS… agricultural robots become so common place and cheap that they will replace the current manual labour. People always laughed when I voiced my pipe dream. Jean-Louis suggests I could be right after all.