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The seeding robots are small, lightweight and robust causing a very low soil compaction. They are carried in a logistic unit which can be towed with a tractor or a car to the fields where the robots should work. The logistic unit charges the robots when they run out of battery and reloads them with seeds so that they can continue their work. As robots operate with batteries, they can use renewable energy produced on farms. The robots are controlled through cloud computing and can be operated from a tablet or a smart-phone. The farmer has just to select the fields where the robots have to work, the number of robots that will work on each field, the seed type, the seeding pattern and the seeding density. The robots will automatically set off to the fields to start working. If one robot has a malfunction, the programme that controls them will automatically substitute it by another one. The programme keeps track of the tasks and records of the coordinates and date on which each seed was planted. The gathered data can be used to target treatments and watering and thus reduce the amount of inputs. Swarm robots can operate both in small and large fields optimising the use of the available land.