New technologies are constantly being developed to make life easier and more productive for people all over the world. Business Insider magazine published an article summarizing the Agricultural and Natural Manufacturing Technology section of a report from Policy Horizons Canada, which worked with Envisioning to create MetaScan 3: Emerging Technologies covering a variety of new technologies and their potential uses.

The article covers different types of new technology, from sensors that can tell a farmer all about the fertility and moisture content of his soil to cruelty-free meat that was grown inside a test tube. The report also predicts that by the 2020s farms will use large numbers of small robots to tend the crops. The ‘agbots’ will be responsible for tasks such as harvesting, fruit picking, ploughing, soil maintenance, weeding, planting, irrigation, and more.

Advances in engineering are also predicted. Maybe by the late 2020s we’ll be seeing farms that rise vertically instead of spread over the land, growing in skyscrapers in urban areas.

If you’d like to learn more about these and many other signs of scientific progress, you can read about it in the Business Insider article “15 Emerging Agriculture Technologies That Will Change The World” by Michell Zappa.