“…Stateoftheart progress in research and future challenges is docu mented in a wide range of review papers and book chapters addressing agriculture in general [1], [3], [4], [5] and specific application domains, including phenotyping [6], [7], [8] ara ble farming [9], livestock farming [10], greenhouse horticulture [2], orchard management [11], forestry [12], and food processing [13]. Review papers also address specific technologies in the context of agricultural robotics, such as computer vision [14], [15], active perception [16], unmanned aer ial vehicle technologies [17], [18], cov erage path planning in arable farming [19], and grasping and soft grasping [20], [21]. Some illustrative examples of agrifood robotics are documented in Figure 2.…”