Topic: Agriculture

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Agtonomy Lands First TeleFarmer Customer in Treasury Wine Estates

February 9, 2023 · Agtonomy announced that Treasury Wine Estates will be taking advantage of its TeleFarmer system as its vineyards in California.

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Sabanto Retrofits Kubota’s M5 Tractors With Self-Driving Capabilities

January 20, 2023 · Kubota has begun using Sabanto's autonomy kit to make its M5 tractors autonomous.

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John Deere Announces ExactShot Fertilizer Robot and Electric Excavator at CES 2023

January 6, 2023 · John Deere said ExactShot, which precisely applies fertilizer to each seed as it is planted, can help agricultural operations save resources and increase production.

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FarmBot Sold a Record Number of Plant-Growing Robots in 2022

December 31, 2022 · 2022 was a good year for FarmBot, as the company released updates to its robots and shipped more units to customers than ever before.

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Raven Industries Debuts Driverless Tillage and Driver Assist Harvest Solutions at CNH Industrial Tech Day

December 13, 2022 · Raven Industries said its new driver-assist and autonomous tractor systems, offered along with other CNH Industrial agricultural products, will improve productivity.

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BeeHero Secures $42M in Series B for Robotic BeeHive System Deployment

December 5, 2022 · BeeHero said the recent funding will help it conduct research for its "Sustainable Agriculture Ecosystem."

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Monarch Tractor Launches Production of Founder Series MK-V Electric, Driver-Optional Smart Tractor

December 1, 2022 · Monarch Tractor combined electric vehicle technology and autonomy using NVIDIA's Jetson edge AI to process sensor data for a sustainable alternative to diesel agricultural equipment.

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Solinftec Scales Up to Provide Affordable Solix Robots, ALICE AI to Farmers

November 23, 2022 · Solinftec said its digital agriculture offerings can make food production more efficient, sustainable, and profitable by reducing chemical inputs and maximizing data.

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Boundless Robotics Goes After Cannabis Market With Plant-Growing Robot

November 9, 2022 · Boundless Robotics could someday offer indoor gardening robots, but it is starting with sophisticated systems to grow cannabis, explained its CEO.

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3 Types of Agricultural Robots That Are Improving Global Productivity

October 23, 2022 · Agricultural robots and artificial intelligence are not only helping to improve productivity, but they can also benefit the global economy, according to analysts.

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Vietnam Farmers Find Greater ROI With XAG Agricultural Drone

August 30, 2022 · XAG recently shared the story of a Vietnamese rice farmer who has started to replace human workers with drones.

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Solinftec to Release Solix Sprayer Robot for Precise Pesticide Application

August 30, 2022 · Solinftec is working with McKinney Corp. to manufacture its new Solix Sprayer robot for agricultural markets in North and South America.

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Innovation at the Intersection of Agriculture and Robotics

July 10, 2022 · University researchers are testing autonomous systems in the agricultural space as they hope to expand robotics reach in the industry.

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Continental Adds Agriculture to Autonomous Mobile Robot Product Line

June 16, 2022 · Continental, which has moved from automotive supplies to autonomous mobile robots, is expanding into agricultural systems with its new partners at Octiva.

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AGCO to Use Apex.OS SDK for Fendt Xaver Self Driving Agricultural Vehicle

June 9, 2022 · AGCO, which previously invested in Apex.AI, will use the Apex.OS software development kit with its Fendt Xaver autonomous farming robot concept.

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Solinftec Collects $60M to Grow Agricultural AI, Robotics in the Americas

May 3, 2022 · Solinftec said it will apply its growth investment to expand its digital farm operations platform into new markets, as Lightsmith Group invests in "climate resilience solutions companies."

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Beewise to Use $80M Series C for Robots to Respond to Hive Threats

April 1, 2022 · Beewise has developed monitoring technology to protect bee populations and increase honey production. This week, it announced Series C funding for its Beehome system.

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Bowery Farming Purchases Traptic to Expand Agricultural Prowess

February 21, 2022 · Indoor grower Bowery Farming has acquired fruit-picking robot provider Traptic to harvest produce such as strawberries.

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Abundant Robots Looks to Harvest Seed Capital via Crowdfunding for Apple Picking

February 2, 2022 · Abundant Robots launched an equity crowdfunding campaign on WAX, as Wavemaker Labs Asia acquired the intellectual property of Abundant Robotics, which shut down last summer.

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Agtonomy Closes $5M Round for Semi-Autonomous Agricultural Equipment

January 21, 2022 · Agtonomy, which is developing a human-supervised platform to automate agricultural equipment in response to labor shortages and sustainability challenges, closed its Seed II round.

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