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Radio Shropshire,26 Jul 2026,3 mins

SeriesFarm to Fork

Robot farmers

Farmwatch

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Could robots already be responsible for the food on your plate without you even knowing? Professor Fernando Auat Cheein, a world leading robotics specialist is Harper Adams University's Professor of Engineering. He told BBC Radio Shropshire’s Paul Shuttleworth that the future isn’t about replacing people, it’s about working alongside the technology as he believes, “the robots and ourselves should coexist, and for that, we need the robot to have social skills.”

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