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2. Agricultural Robots
Agricultural robots are automated machines capable to realise tasks through dedicated actuators (e.g., end effectors, grippers, manipulators) or by using available or adapted agricultural implements and tools. The list of robots is constantly growing following a trend that analysts consider will lead these autonomous machines to cover about half of the agricultural machinery market sector in a couple of decades. To simplify the list curation, I structured it into three parts: the established and emerging manufacturers, and the robots, further divided into specialised or multipurpose (e.g., implement carriers).
Warning: the page is under construction. Feel free to contribute information about the sector.
- Naïo Technologies website
- SITIA website The founder Fabien Arignon shared some thoughts about the role of robotics to re-boost local legume production in northern France
- Exxact Robotics (Exel group) website
- AgreenCulture website
- EarthAutomations website
- Free Green Nature website
- XAgriFly is a southern Italian company (located in Taranto, Puglia) developing unmanned vehicles for crop spraying, both as a drone of as a rover, also supported with a scouting drone and a connected weather station. They have also a Facebook page
- AgBot Challenge that was run from 2916 to 2019
- Ted by Naïo
- FD20 by FarmDroïd
- Aigro autonomous weeder for specialised crops: website
- Kilter AX-1 by Kilter (emerged from Adigo Mekatronik in 2020): website
- Trabotyx (being tested in Tunisia): website
- Ekobot is the eponymous robot of a Swedish company being demonstrated also in The Netherlands: website
- Icaro X4 by Free Green Nature: website
- Selector180 by H2LRobotics for tulip selection (cf. LinkedIn page
- ARPA-E TERRA program short for “Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture”, which included the development and combination of a field scanalyzer, aerial sensing and a rover called TERRA-MEPP for completing the proxi-detection.
- Robotti by AgroIntelli
- AgBot by AgXeed
- Autoagri IC (implement carrier): website
- Flunick by Semesis: website
- FD20 by Farmdroïd: website
- SentiV by Meropy
- Field flux robot by Adigo Mekatronik: website
- Husky UGV for steep slope vineyards and rugged terrain: website
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Clearpath Robotics is a Canada based company that creates unmanned ground vehicles that are being used in various research projects and applications for agriculture, especially for data scouting, such as:
- a Ph.D. project at the Danish Technical University for scanning plants vs weeds using Husky UGV
- the Grizzly RUV (Robot Utility Vehicle) that participated in the 2016 AgBot seeding competition
- the BrambleBee greenhouse pollination experiment ran with a Husky UGV in 2018 by the West Virginia University researchers (see the Produce Grower online journal article
- the development, in 2019, by the Clemson University for cotton harvesting using Husky UGV as a base rover
- the Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Canada) to turn Husky UGV into a cucumber harvester
- the data scouting application for vineyards being developed by the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy for vineyards and row crops
- Terra-MEPP is a research project funded by Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) from October 2015 to June 2020 to a consortium coordinated by the University of Illinois to develop a mobile energy-crop phenotyping platform
- AgDrone is a UK-based company developing drones and applications for agriculture, such as scouting, mapping and spraying
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