Smart Farming is developing towards digitalized and data-driven operations, advanced decision support systems, smart analyses, and planning, among others. Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, and Internet of Things (IoT) have unlocked a new direction of innovative research for smart agriculture. Related to this, agricultural mechanization and automation technologies have led farming into a new era of robotics in agriculture. Current autonomous ground and aerial robots can gather operational data as well as affect the operations on a broader basis than manual practices. Such robotic technologies have a strong potential to further reduce the use of labor and increase the precision and efficiency of production inputs. Moreover, they can contribute to increased agricultural productivity and long-term sustainability of the industry, facing the new challenges of resource-efficient and environmentally-friendly agricultural production.

This Research Topic aims to highlight the latest research results and advances in technologies relevant to the automation of agriculture and farming processes. It will focus on the active implementation of AI-empowered tools and methods, in addition to the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies for precision and sustainable farming. Enabling AI into robotic systems is expected to contribute to social good and support the agricultural community across the globe with taking the next leap in turning smart agricultural practice into actionable insights to improve sustainable farming. In this Research Topic, contributions that explore the development and advancement of robotics in Smart Farming are welcome. These include the applications of automatic and robotic systems to assess, evaluate, and control the sustainability of innovative agri-food systems (innovative technologies, digitized operations, and production systems, autonomous systems, etc.). Contributions describing sustainability of integrated farming systems (smart farming concepts connected with robotics and automation) are also welcome.

This Research Topic aims to explore advances in robotics and automation systems for smart farming. Topics of interest for the collection include, but not, limited to the following:

• Smart Farming
• Control strategies for robot manipulation and navigation in agricultural applications
• UAS or drones in agriculture
• Robotics for specialty crop production, animal production, greenhouse and vertical farming systems
• Machine learning and artificial intelligence in agriculture
• Applications and supervision of agricultural robots
• Management and maintenance of agricultural robots
• Robotic farming economic analysis

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