Food 4.0: An Introduction

Abstract

The fourth industrial revolution is a prospective innovation path for human life to possibly replace human intelligence and manual labour with artificial intelligence and robotics. The concept of 4IR is being embraced and applied in all sectors of human life. The academics are researching intensely into the revolution, while industry captain braces up to the inevitable and fast implementation in energy, automobile, telecommunication, services, security, medicine, and other industrial sectors. Agriculture and food sector, which is termed Food 4.0, being the highest employer of human resources, is a major sector that is expected to benefit tremendously from the concept and application of 4IR in driving the sector into the new era of development.