Agriculture

At the SITEVI trade fair this week for the wine, fruit, and olive-growing sectors, the French startup presented its Robotic Harmony fleet, consisting of an Alpo electric straddle tractor and Zilus all-terrain robot, that can work together with the tractor driver able to supervise the robot.

The Apex.AI development environment will enable prototype functions developed by Krone and Lemken for their Combined Powers project for autonomous drive farm vehicle and attachments to be transferred to safety-certifiable production system.

The swarming farm autonomy startup’s Steward technology is aimed at allowing existing tractors to perform tasks without an operator present, allowing workers to focus on other tasks around the farm and operation while the machines run on their own.

Hexagon’s Mining and Autonomy & Positioning divisions are teaming to further automate mining, agriculture and other heavy industries to help make them more efficient and sustainable.

The global forecast from Research and Markets finds that the increasing global demand for food and other agricultural commodities has resulted in the deployment of AVs at an increasing rate, the growth primarily driven by the rising demand for improved crop yield efficiency and productivity.

Recent technologies like ExactShot, See & Spray Ultimate, and 8R autonomous tractor are just elements of Deere’s ambitious vision for agriculture as it works toward a goal of full machine autonomy for tilling, planting, applying herbicides/nutrients, and harvesting by the end of the decade.

Targeted for production by 2025, the Kibb represents a product expansion for the Swedish maker of electric two-wheelers, with the semi-autonomous four-wheeler designed to handle light agricultural tasks autonomously with minimal impact to delicate ecosystems.

New Holland’s T8 series, the world’s most powerful conventional tractors, now possess Raven autonomy.

Constellation Brands is purchasing the first six units of Monarch Tractors’ Founder Series MK-V with Nvidia AI at its headquarters and manufacturing facility in Livermore, CA, with contract manufacturing to come at Foxconn’s Lordstown, OH, facility in 2023.

The Innovation Awards in Robotics and Vehicle Tech & Advanced Mobility Categories are for the company’s tractor that integrates technology such as cameras, artificial intelligence, other sensors, and ultra-fast GPU processors to navigate through a field without an operator in the cab.