Agricultural automation is a continual development. The current research technologies give rise to the possibility of developing a completely new mechanisation system to support the cropping system based on small smart machines.

Telematics is a term that combines the words telecommunications and informatics to broadly describe the integrated use of communications and information technology to transmit, store and receive information from telecommunications devices to remote objects over a network.

Artificial intelligence is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is also a field of study which tries to make computers "smart".