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By virtue of their flexibility, which permits them to be used for many different tasks, robots3 have the potential for lowering production costs. Automated machinery such as combines often go unused for many months each year, and the fixed overhead costs add unnecessary expense. A machine which transplants, irrigates, fertilizes, and harvests many different kinds of crops could be utilized more often during the year, thereby lowering the fixed costs allocated to each crop. Its ability to perform the necessary functions for many different crops would provide additional business options for the farm manager to consider.
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Miles, G.E., Kutz, L.J. (1991). Robots in Transplanting. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation I. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 17. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76415-8_25
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