The Division of Automated Farming Research engages in research and development with two main pillars: one is to develop and introduce small-sized electric farming robots for crop production sites in order to cope with the severe labor shortages where mechanization for vegetables is not yet greatly progressed; the other is to construct highly efficient farming work systems that can work stably under various and changing conditions, such as weather, soil, and crop conditions and others, when carrying out agricultural work in order to reduce the loss of cropping opportunities and work delays caused by poor weather and other reasons.
Our goal is to improve the workload capacity per farmer by allowing small-sized electric robots to perform tasks autonomously and cooperate with humans in managing, transporting, harvesting and other tasks. We also aim to improve the workable days ratio by developing a mechanism that enables tasks even under difficult weather and field conditions for farm work until now.
Furthermore, we are working with private companies, public experimental and research institutes, and producers for the development of machinery to promptly respond to the needs of production sites.
