Waitrose first supermarket to use robots to farm its food

British supermarkets are to start selling food farmed in the UK by robots for the first time in a project led by Waitrose, the Telegraph has learned. The supermarket will use autonomous farming robots to analyse, plant and protect crops from weeds at a farm near Stockbridge, Hampshire. In a three-year trial, the robots - known as Tom, Dick and Harry - will start cultivating fields used to grow wheat for bread and flour sold in Waitrose stores. The robots, developed by Shropshire-based start-up the Small Robot Company, uses artificial intelligence to scan thousands of pictures of a specific field. The images allow them to spot weeds and plant seeds in the best location.