Deepfield Robotics is preparing to showcase its robotics and automation technologies for the agriculture market at the Agrilevante event, in Italy.
The company is a startup established by industrial giant Bosch, and has a variety of solutions for the burgeoning precision agriculture market. Continue reading Deepfield Robotics to showcase precision agriculture technology at Agrilevante
Scientists at the University of Illinois, in the US, have presented agricultural robot technology which they say can save significant amounts of time and money in farm labour costs.
The TerraSentia mobile robot for precision agriculture is being marketed by a startup company called EarthSense, presumably a spin-out from the university.
Developed with support from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy, the TerraSentia costs $5,000. Continue reading University of Illinois presents its TerraSentia farming robot to investors
John Deere, the farming machinery giant, has reached a deal to buy lettuce farming robot maker Blue River Technology for $305 million.
Blue River also provides a range of other technology solutions – such as a weed killing machine, drone sensing and phenotyping solutions – to the precision agriculture sector, principally using machine learning.
The lettuce farming robot is called LettuceBot, and is one of the company’s newer products.
John May, president, agricultural solutions, and chief information officer at Deere, says: “We welcome the opportunity to work with a Blue River Technology team that is highly skilled and intensely dedicated to rapidly advancing the implementation of machine learning in agriculture. Continue reading John Deere to buy lettuce farming robot maker Blue River Technology
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