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David Christian Rose is a leading scholar at the intersection of agricultural technology, innovation governance, and responsible development. His research has fundamentally shaped how academics, policymakers, and industry practitioners think about the transition to "Agriculture 4.0" — a transformative era defined by artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, gene editing, and blockchain technologies reshaping food systems worldwide. Rose's two landmark papers on Agriculture 4.0, published in 2018 and 2019, have collectively attracted over 1,200 citations, establishing him as one of the most influential voices in this rapidly evolving field. A central thread throughout his work is the imperative of responsible innovation: ensuring that powerful new agricultural technologies are developed inclusively, ethically, and with careful attention to diverse social and environmental consequences. His research on autonomous robotics has examined critical real-world barriers to adoption, from regulatory frameworks governing on-site supervision to grower perspectives in the soft fruit sector following post-Brexit labour shortages. More recently, Rose has turned his attention to questions of stakeholder participation and inclusion in robotics development, interrogating who shapes these technologies and whose voices are marginalised. His body of work offers an essential critical framework for navigating agriculture's technological future responsibly.