World’s first ‘robot run’ farm to open in Japan

This June 14, 2012 hand out picture shows a worker checking lettuces at the indoor farm of Spread company in its Kameoka factory in Kameoka city, Kyoto prefecture. A Japanese firm said on February 1, 2016 it would open the world's first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops. - AFP

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese firm said Monday it would open the world’s first fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process, from watering seedlings to harvesting crops.

Kyoto-based Spread said the indoor grow house will start operating by the middle of 2017 and produce 30,000 heads of lettuce a day.