“…Agricultural robotics has been an interesting research field since the 1980s, especially from the point of view of the design (Sørensen et al, 2010;Vestlund & Hellstr€ om, 2006). There were many attempts to introduce robots or semiautomated machines in very different field activities, such as: planting, weeding, crop and environmental monitoring, pest control, crop harvesting, fruit picking (Asimopoulos, Parisses, Smyrnaios, & Germanidis, 2013;Bak & Jakobsen, 2004;Bakker, Asselt, Bontsema, Mü ller, & Straten, 2010;De-An, Jidong, Wei, Ying, & Yu, 2011;Gobor, Schulze Lammers, & Martinov, 2013;Greenman et al, 2003;Hamner, Bergerman, & Singh, 2011;Kondo, Yamamoto, Yata, & Kurita, 2008;Slaughter, Giles, & Downey, 2008;Yaghoubi et al, 2013). Most of the systems are still at the development stage and not yet available on the market.…”