Positive public attitudes towards agricultural robots.

ABSTRACT: Robot technologies could lead to radical changes in farming. But what does the public know and think about agricultural robots? Recent experience with other agricultural technologies-such as plant genetic engineering-shows that public perceptions can influence the pace and direction of innovation, so understanding perceptions and how they are formed is important. Here, we use representative data from an online survey (n = 2269) to analyze public attitudes towards crop farming robots in Germany-a country where new farming technologies are sometimes seen with skepticism. While less than half of the survey participants are aware of the use of robots in agriculture, general attitudes are mostly positive and the level of interest is high. A framing experiment suggests that the type of informati

SUBMITTER: Zeddies HH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227594 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature