Is Agriculture Ready for Autonomous Tractors?

A new white paper from Agri-EPI Centre, the U.K. Agricultural Innovation Centre for Precision and Engineering Technology, offers recommendations related to future developments of autonomous agricultural solutions, writes Ben Wodecki at IoT World Today.

Currently, several companies are developing autonomous offerings in the agriculture space. John Deere showcased an autonomous tractor at this year’s CES. To support its work in autonomy, the agricultural machinery firm snapped up Bear Flag Robotics for $250 million last August.

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But it’s not just big names working in this space: startups like Monarch Tractor and Midnight Robotics are also making waves in this space.

For its 2021 Agricultural Technology Hackathon, Agri-EPI Centre, joined forces with Innovate U.K.-funded Hands Free Farm, a testbed for autonomous farm machinery and drones. Robotics, drones and computer vision were all used to address challenges like detecting people entering and exiting operational areas and managing human-machine interaction.

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Following the hackathon, Agri-EPI published an 11-page white paper that raises considerations around agriculture’s readiness for large-scale adoption of autonomous vehicles and offers recommendations around maximizing safety, improving connectivity, and combating future technology threats.

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