AFARA-COTTON uses cameras, lidar sensors, and ultrasonic sensors to scan the ground for stray seed cotton and autonomously gather it.
Cutting Edge: AI-powered landscaping with Electric Sheep
Electric Sheep is revolutionizing the commercial landscaping industry with autonomous mobile robots, leveraging AI and vertical integration.
Podcast: The story behind Tortuga’s autonomous harvesting robots
Learn how Tortuga is innovating with autonomous harvesting solutions for grapes, tomatoes, and strawberries.
Hippo Harvest brings in $21M to scale automated greenhouse operations
Hippo Harvest plans to use the funding to scale its greenhouse operations to grow produce at competitive costs with less resources and waste.
GUSS Automation launches new electric herbicide sprayer
The new GUSS Electric sprayer has new autonomy and safety features and will be distributed through local John Deere distributors.
Carbon Robotics launches new Track LaserWeeder system
Carbon Robotics has launched the new Track LaserWeeder for soft soils, along with software enhancements to help farmers.
Podcast: CNHI provides an update on agricultural automation
CNHI Chief Digital Officer Marc Kermisch explains how robots and data can help farmers in this week’s podcast episode.
Burro closes Series B funding to launch more collaborative field robots
Burro received funding led by Catalyst Investors and Translink Capital as it builds outdoor robots for agriculture, construction, and more.
CNH expands high-tech harvesting stake with investment in Advanced Farm Technologies
CNH has invested in Advanced Farm Technologies, focusing on robotic harvesting of fruits like apples and strawberries.
FIRA USA 2023 Ag robotics recap
The 2023 FIRA USA agricultural robotics show in Salinas CA was a great collection of cutting edge agtech robotics solutions.
2024 Farm Robotics Challenge competition kickoff
The 2024 Farm Robotics Challenge is a year long agricultural robotics project challenge for university teams with prizes awarded in September 2024.
PODCAST: Ag robotics special – Four Growers tomato picking robots and FIRA update
This week’s podcast highlights the agricultural robotics industry, including an interview with Four Growers CEO Brandon Contino, and a recap of the 2023 FIRA ag robotics event.
Robotics Plus launches Prospr as a multi-use autonomous platform for the farm
Autonomous modular vehicle platform for agriculture automates a variety of tree crop tasks, including intelligent spraying – to improve efficiency and alleviate labor challenges
Agtonomy, On-Target Collaborate to Advance All-Electric Implement Ecosystems
Agtonomy debuts autonomous electrostatic Smart Spray integration option for agriculture at FIRA USA.
Burro releases new software features in update v4
The most recent release of Burro software, v4.0, enhances two-way towing and reliability when Burro moves from GPS-limited outdoor environments to GPS-limited indoor environments.
FireFly Automatix launches autonomous 100-inch mower: M100-AV
New autonomous, electric professional mower reduces labor and energy costs for turf management.
Robin, Graze pilot lawnmowers at Dallas Fort Worth airport
Robin Autopilot and Graze have announced an initiative to test both companies’ eco-friendly solutions for Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.
This CMU robot can help control the spread of invasive lanternflies
A team from CMU has developed an autonomous robot, called TartanPest, to help control the spread of spotted lanternflies.
Small Robot Company deploys robots to help care for crop plants
A pioneering autonomous robot is set to help farmers better monitor the health status of individual crop plants and reduce herbicide use.
Ukrainian tractor automation company develops homegrown demining solution
Without this solution, farmers in Ukraine would have to wait for years for their turn to clear hundreds and thousands of hectares of land.
Carbon Robotics raises $30 million in series C funding to scale LaserWeeder platform
The funding will be used to expand sales regions in North America, optimize and scale manufacturing, develop new software and hardware products, and launch into international markets.
Tevel Aerobotics ready for deployment
Tevel Aerobotics demonstrated the Alpha-bot, an eight drone autonomous fruit picking solution with a self-contained and mobile accumulation platform that’s ready for deployment this growing season.
PODCAST: Robots and automation at the World Ag Expo 2023
On the show this week, Mike discusses the new automation and robotics solutions on display at the 2023 World Ag Expo.
EXXACT Robotics unveils autonomous hydrogen-powered vineyard straddle tractor
The new hydrogen fuel-cell powered, autonomous straddle tractor is the first alternative fuel tractor from EXXACT Robotics.
Agtonomy launches TeleFarmer solution to help specialty crop farmers automate
New technology platform enables farmers to precisely plan and execute labor-intensive field tasks.