The Rise of Food Robots Butchering Cows and Packing Veg
A crop of strawberries stands illuminated by a Thorvald autonomous modular robot, developed by Saga Robotics, as it performs an Ultra-Violet (UV) light treatment during robotics trials held by a U.K. agri-food consortium at Clock House Farm Ltd., near Maidstone, U.K., 2020.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergIn the midst of the Covid pandemic, global agri-food supply chains buckled due to a shortage of workers — from chefs and fruit pickers to meatpackers and truckers.
A shift to more automation was seen as a potential solution at the time, though an expensive endeavor and something that was still very much in development. But since then, more money has poured into agriculture robots in an attempt to ease labor shortfalls and make production more efficient.