Although proponents dream of removing people from any role in operating robotic aircraft, that vision under-estimates how crucial the human brain is to the conduct of effective air operations.

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Robotics: Six presenting firms offer robotic and software systems to maximize yield and productivity including Energid Technologies that has developed a robotic citrus harvesting system that automatically finds and removes fruit at a lower cost than manual harvesting, and Vision Robotics that will use stereo vision-based robots to pick, prune and other tasks on specialty crops.

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