May 22, 2015 at 13:4225 companies manufacturing robotics for agriculture
In this article, we will talk about 25 companies (from conglomerates to start-ups) that try to use robotics to solve agricultural problems , as well as what these companies do, what their products will be available (or already available) and how much they will cost .
Website: isogroepmachinebouw.nl
Product: RoBoPlant - a robot for planting flowers and semi-autonomous robots for replanting plants.
Scope: all territory of the EU.
Function: semi- and fully automatic equipment for greenhouses or vegetable growing greenhouses. A robotic system for planting flowers takes peat seedlings, separates them and plants them according to a pre-selected scheme.
RoBoPlant Flower Planting Robot, developed by ISO Group.
Testing: ongoing testing and development.
Availability: product sales began in 2002.
Website: autonomoustractor.com
Product: modular robotic tractor without a control cab.
Scope: producers of hay in the USA.
Function: haymaking. It is possible to increase engine power depending on the type and size of the device. Functionality will expand to other crops, as well as to other industries not related to agriculture.
Testing: ongoing field trials.
Availability: in 2016, it is expected to enter the market and deliver pre-orders.
Price: should be half that of tractors and agricultural machines using similar power sources.
Website: bluerivert.com
Product: LettuceBot2 (2nd generation) for thinning lettuce.
Scope: salad fields of California and Arizona (make up 80% of lettuce production in the USA).
Function: thinning and spraying of weeds, cabbage, Roman and leaf lettuce.
Testing: field testing of a 3rd generation machine has recently been completed; used selective weeding to improve germination of crops.
Availability: began to be used for processing areas in 2013.
Price: the cost of processing a unit area depends on the configuration of lettuce crops, but the costs are lower than what is required to pay for manual labor.
Website: agrobot.com
Product: Agrobot SW6010 and AGSHydro, a hydroponic strawberry growing and harvesting system.
Harvesting Agrobot
Applications: Strawberry picking in Oxnard, California.
Function: picking ripe berries from hydroponic systems.
Testing: the final strawberry harvest testing will take place in January; after seasonal testing for several years.
Availability: mid-2015.
Price:$ 250,000 for a sweeper with 60 robotic arms. According to a berry farmer, Agrobot is a good investment on several occasions. For example, when it is possible to harvest a crop with it cheaper than it was done before, and also when fruits are harvested with it where there is not enough labor. In the latter case, Agrobot pays off instantly, because if we cannot harvest, then the business is worth it.
Website: agribotix.com
Product: precision drones - Agribotix Hornet Drone.
Agribotix Hornet Drone
Scope: Midwest USA (Colorado, Kansas, Montana, etc.).
Function: agricultural drones are leased to cooperatives, agronomists, pruning consultants, farm managers and large industrial agricultural corporations; they take high-resolution images and maps using a variety of sensors and process them, and develop maps to identify which places need fertilizer more.
Testing: tests are currently underway.
Availability: sales began in 2014.
Price:about $ 8,000 per season, including training, the use of drones, RGB and infrared images, plant health and mapping. Agribotix offers image processing services per unit area for the development of maps as part of an annual contract.
Website: wall-ye.com
Product: Wall-Ye 1000 mobile is a cropping robot.
Scope: pruning of French vineyards.
Function: offline cropping.
Testing: completed in 2013.
Availability: for sale and service.
Price: $ 30,000.
Website: ecorobotix.com
Product: light autonomous weeding robots; ecoRobotix field robot.
Scope: field tests in Switzerland; next year in Germany.
Function: a robotic bed weeding platform, which works on the basis of advanced weed recognition algorithms, has fast robotic arms, advanced touch technologies, wireless communication and demonstrates high energy efficiency.
Testing: currently tested on weeding sugar beets, but it is planned to expand the scope also for rapeseed, sunflower, corn and soy.
Availability: the first cars will be on sale by the end of 2015.
Price: about 15 000 EUR.
Website: energid.com
Product: A Citrus Harvest Robot - A Towed Multi-Arm Harvester
Application: Florida Citrus Orchards; oranges (at the beginning and end of the season) and grapefruits.
Function: harvesting, primarily for juice.
Testing: Testing will take place during the harvest season in 2015–2016.
Availability: Appears in 2016.
Price: $ 300,000– $ 400,000.
Website: harvestai.com
Product: HV-100 Mobile Robot.
Scope: forest nurseries (berries, tomatoes, etc.).
Function: loading and unloading, moving containers, thinning.
Testing: HV-100 testing completed.
Availability: sold since 2013.
Price: $ 130,000 for a team of four robots. Harvest Automation also leases teams of four robots for $ 30,000 for 3 months. The rental scheme has proven itself very well. All who rented combines - subsequently purchased them.
Harvest Automation Robot Planting Scheme
Website: clearpathrobotics.com
Product: Grizzly RUV (no-cab robotic SUV) and Husky UGV.
Scope: implemented by research institutions with the aim of developing applications for agriculture.
Function: harvesting, mowing, hauling, research.
Testing:testing is carried out on asparagus using a laser scanner to detect stems and cut them inside the soil; the removal of manure from poultry farms during the cleaning of barns; identification of areas on the field where the cows urinate for the subsequent cultivation of the soil so that the grass continues to grow; mowing in the area between rows of fruit trees in orchards; transportation of wagons with hay / straw to the shed and back; transportation of chemical fillers to spraying places; export of manure.
Availability: currently sold only to academic and research organizations.
Price: from $ 12,000 to $ 100,000 depending on configuration.
Clearpath Grizzly RUV pulling equipment
Website: asirobots.com
Product: Forge Robotic Platform, a robotic platform to operate the skid steer loader offline or remotely.
ASI: versatile, fully equipped vehicle
. Application: vineyards.
Function: pruning and spraying.
Testing: Field trials in Kansas and Texas.
Availability: mid-2015.
Price: $ 75,000– $ 150,000 per unit (includes a complete mini-loader and a set for the driver), depending on the configuration of the mini-loader
Website: wageningenur.nl and agritronics.nl
Product: Research to develop intelligent systems for high-quality harvesting for commercial research partners and suppliers.
Scope: sweet pepper in the Netherlands, apples and grapes in Belgium, mounted spraying in Slovenia and spot spraying in Italy.
Function: harvesting and spraying (spot and mounted).
Testing:testing was carried out on sweet pepper in July in a commercial greenhouse; on apples and grapes - completed. Field spray tests have been completed. A new combine with visual quality control and a surveillance system for broccoli is being developed jointly with the Agritronics startup in Sint Annaporochi, the Netherlands.
Availability: development will take several years.
Website: visionrobotics.com
Product: Vision Robotics 6-Line salad thinner and vine pruner.
Scope: California.
Function: vine pruning testing; salad thinner is already on sale.
Testing: Testing and development of the pruning shears for the vine can be completed in less than 18 months, depending on funding.
Availability: salad thinner is already on sale; secateurs can be purchased at the beginning of 2016.
Price: salad thinner - from $ 140,000 and above (depending on configuration); pruners are likely to be sold at the same price.
Website: precisionhawk.com
Product: Lancaster UAV with various options for plug-in sensors and Datamapper.
Scope: Ontario, Canada.
Function: providing data to agronomist researchers, consultants, farmers and ranchers for management decisions on farms.
Testing: field testing as part of Canada’s specific liquid fuel consumption for several years. Most research and development is done in Ontario, Canada. Over the past six months, he has received a number of government licenses from the Federal Air Transport Agency to conduct field trials and research in the United States with institutions such as North Carolina State University, Texas A&M University, Kansas State University, and Cornell University.
Availability:70% sold in different countries. He took part in a number of projects together with American companies for specific research projects.
Price: Lancaster base platform $ 15,000 plus sensors and other advanced options.
Website: visionweeding.com
Product: ROBOVATOR thermal and / or hydraulic cultivator.
Scope: 30 cultivators are already working in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada.
Function: weeding and thinning lettuce, cabbage, dill and onions.
Testing: in California (before distribution in North America).
Availability: went on sale in 2011, after 8 years of testing and development.
Price: 5-row configuration, sold in Europe at a price of 80,000 euros ($ 100,000).
Website: kinze.com and jaybridge.com
Product: an automated system for harvesting row crops - a stand-alone tractor and grain truck.
Scope: harvesting of corn and soybeans, Iowa and Illinois.
Function: independently sprinkles grain from combines into the truck’s capacity and delivers it to the fields.
Testing:testing of the autonomous harvesting system has been carried out since 2012; in 2013, three farmers from Iowa and Illinois rented the system and used it on their own, without supervision from Kinze. The Kinze system has a set of standard components, including a GPS module, a radar, laser sensors and video cameras, and software, which determines obstacles. Developed in conjunction with Jaybridge Robotics.
Availability: Kinze does not currently sell a harvesting system, but it soon promises to release the harvester on sale.
Price: not yet installed for a system that includes an unmanned control module, navigation system, route planning, communication with the combine and control software.
Website: agrobotics.com
Product: AutoProbe, soil sampling system.
Scope: corn belt in the Midwest of the USA.
Function: AutoProbe is a towed implement that attaches to the tractor at the rear to ensure consistent, accurate, and seamless soil sampling. Productivity - more than 2500 samples per hour.
Testing: for 7 years in the Mississippi Delta.
Availability: currently available as a soil sampling service and for sale; live demonstrations are held at various agricultural exhibitions in the USA.
Website: info.amazone.de
Product: Amazone-Bosch BoniRob - lightweight field robot
Application: work in experimental sites of corn and wheat in Germany.
Function: autonomous field robots capable of moving in any direction are designed to work in “teams”.
Testing: a universal lightweight robot for weeding, fertilizer, control, developed by Robert Bosch GmbH.
Availability: only 2 ready; no sales plans were announced.
Website: helpersys.co.kr
Product: BoniRob - field robot for grafting fruits and vegetables
Applications: Korea, Japan and China.
Function: Vaccination is most common in European and Asian countries, as well as in greenhouses around the world, where cultural turnover is no longer applied and all free land is heavily used. Robotic vaccination is a relatively new method, although various mechanisms for vaccination have been used before.
Website: agcocorp.com
Product: GuideConnect, SectionControl and VarioGuide.
AGCO Fendt GuideConnect - dual system
Automatic control system AGCO Fendt VarioGuide
Application: universal.
Function: SectionControl integrates various data and allows fully automatic control via GNSS for ISOBUS-compatible sprayers, dusters and seed drills; VarioGuide - an automatic control system for any time of the day; newGuideConnect - a development that enables the joint use of two tractors, one of which is unmanned.
Testing:GuideConnect is under development, the date of sale is still unknown; the machine is not equipped with its own obstacle detection system - perhaps because the product is still being developed.
Availability: All configurations except GuideConnect are available in the EU and USA.
Website: rowbot.com
Product: Rowbot is an unmanned multi-purpose platform and is capable of moving between rows of corn. Used for: applying nitrogen fertilizers in accordance with the needs of corn plants. It can also collect sensor data for current and future work. GPS and several sensors allow the robot not to harm the plants.
Rowbot in a corn field. Rowbots work in nitrogen fertilizer teams according to plant needs.
Scope: US corn belt.
Function: Rowbot moves between rows in corn fields or under leaves, knows how to distribute nitrogen fertilizers, or sow seeds of cereal crops.
Testing:The company is working with Carnegie Robotics to develop the Rowbot.
Availability: test marketing was launched this year during the seasonal application of nitrogen fertilizers and sowing; It is planned to expand the range of services in 2015.
Website: sensefly.com
Product: eBee Ag.
eBee Ag from senseFly
eBee Ag from senseFly, automatic control system and shipping container
Application: universal.
Feature: The eBee Ag system includes eMotion software and a packaging case. Software and cameras support a resolution of 2 centimeters per pixel. Together, these two components are able to create extremely accurate 3D terrain maps and play 45 minutes of flight in a recording.
Testing: no data.
Availability: EBee ag is now in stock.
Price: approximately $ 12,000 for the entire system.
Website: conic-system.com
Product: EMP-300 plant grafting robot.
Plant grafting robot EMP-300 from Conic Systems
Scope: universal.
Function: possible grafting of various vegetable crops and other greenhouse plants.
Testing: no data.
Availability: in stock.
Website: naio-technologies.com
Product: Field Robot Naio Technologies Oz.
Field Robot Naio Technologies Oz
Application: mainly in France.
Testing: testing a new-generation robot Naio Technologies Oz (with an improved navigation system) is carried out in real conditions in France.
Function: Naio Technologies Oz is an autonomous electric tractor that can be used both for harvesting and for transporting crops. Oz functions as a self-propelled robotic tool.
Availability: sales began in 2013.
Price:at the stage of entering the market, robots are leased in order to familiarize consumers with the new line of products and correct deficiencies discovered during use. The rental price depends on the configuration and ranges from $ 315 to $ 475 per month.
Product: berry harvesting machine, information collection and mobile platform.
Berry Harvesting Machine
Scope: California.
Testing: currently ongoing in California.
Function: a stand-alone mobile device draws up a 3D map of the location of vegetables and fruits, then the robotic hand carefully picks the detected fruit and places it on the conveyor belt.
1. Company: ISO Group, Flier Systems, Gameren, Netherlands.
Website: isogroepmachinebouw.nl
Product: RoBoPlant - a robot for planting flowers and semi-autonomous robots for replanting plants.
Scope: all territory of the EU.
Function: semi- and fully automatic equipment for greenhouses or vegetable growing greenhouses. A robotic system for planting flowers takes peat seedlings, separates them and plants them according to a pre-selected scheme.
RoBoPlant Flower Planting Robot, developed by ISO Group.
Testing: ongoing testing and development.
Availability: product sales began in 2002.
2. Company: Autonomous Tractor, Fargo, North Dakota.
Website: autonomoustractor.com
Product: modular robotic tractor without a control cab.
Scope: producers of hay in the USA.
Function: haymaking. It is possible to increase engine power depending on the type and size of the device. Functionality will expand to other crops, as well as to other industries not related to agriculture.
Testing: ongoing field trials.
Availability: in 2016, it is expected to enter the market and deliver pre-orders.
Price: should be half that of tractors and agricultural machines using similar power sources.
3. Blue River Technologies, Sunnyvale, California.
Website: bluerivert.com
Product: LettuceBot2 (2nd generation) for thinning lettuce.
Scope: salad fields of California and Arizona (make up 80% of lettuce production in the USA).
Function: thinning and spraying of weeds, cabbage, Roman and leaf lettuce.
Testing: field testing of a 3rd generation machine has recently been completed; used selective weeding to improve germination of crops.
Availability: began to be used for processing areas in 2013.
Price: the cost of processing a unit area depends on the configuration of lettuce crops, but the costs are lower than what is required to pay for manual labor.
4. Company: Agrobot, Huelva, Spain.
Website: agrobot.com
Product: Agrobot SW6010 and AGSHydro, a hydroponic strawberry growing and harvesting system.
Harvesting Agrobot
Applications: Strawberry picking in Oxnard, California.
Function: picking ripe berries from hydroponic systems.
Testing: the final strawberry harvest testing will take place in January; after seasonal testing for several years.
Availability: mid-2015.
Price:$ 250,000 for a sweeper with 60 robotic arms. According to a berry farmer, Agrobot is a good investment on several occasions. For example, when it is possible to harvest a crop with it cheaper than it was done before, and also when fruits are harvested with it where there is not enough labor. In the latter case, Agrobot pays off instantly, because if we cannot harvest, then the business is worth it.
5. Company: Agribotix, Boulder, Colorado.
Website: agribotix.com
Product: precision drones - Agribotix Hornet Drone.
Agribotix Hornet Drone
Scope: Midwest USA (Colorado, Kansas, Montana, etc.).
Function: agricultural drones are leased to cooperatives, agronomists, pruning consultants, farm managers and large industrial agricultural corporations; they take high-resolution images and maps using a variety of sensors and process them, and develop maps to identify which places need fertilizer more.
Testing: tests are currently underway.
Availability: sales began in 2014.
Price:about $ 8,000 per season, including training, the use of drones, RGB and infrared images, plant health and mapping. Agribotix offers image processing services per unit area for the development of maps as part of an annual contract.
6. Company: Wall-Ye, Macon, France.
Website: wall-ye.com
Product: Wall-Ye 1000 mobile is a cropping robot.
Scope: pruning of French vineyards.
Function: offline cropping.
Testing: completed in 2013.
Availability: for sale and service.
Price: $ 30,000.
7. Company: ecoRobotix, Eser-Pite, Switzerland.
Website: ecorobotix.com
Product: light autonomous weeding robots; ecoRobotix field robot.
Scope: field tests in Switzerland; next year in Germany.
Function: a robotic bed weeding platform, which works on the basis of advanced weed recognition algorithms, has fast robotic arms, advanced touch technologies, wireless communication and demonstrates high energy efficiency.
Testing: currently tested on weeding sugar beets, but it is planned to expand the scope also for rapeseed, sunflower, corn and soy.
Availability: the first cars will be on sale by the end of 2015.
Price: about 15 000 EUR.
8. Company: Energid, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Website: energid.com
Product: A Citrus Harvest Robot - A Towed Multi-Arm Harvester
Application: Florida Citrus Orchards; oranges (at the beginning and end of the season) and grapefruits.
Function: harvesting, primarily for juice.
Testing: Testing will take place during the harvest season in 2015–2016.
Availability: Appears in 2016.
Price: $ 300,000– $ 400,000.
9. Company: Harvest Automation, North Billerika, Massachusetts.
Website: harvestai.com
Product: HV-100 Mobile Robot.
Scope: forest nurseries (berries, tomatoes, etc.).
Function: loading and unloading, moving containers, thinning.
Testing: HV-100 testing completed.
Availability: sold since 2013.
Price: $ 130,000 for a team of four robots. Harvest Automation also leases teams of four robots for $ 30,000 for 3 months. The rental scheme has proven itself very well. All who rented combines - subsequently purchased them.
Harvest Automation Robot Planting Scheme
10. Company: Clearpath Robotics, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Website: clearpathrobotics.com
Product: Grizzly RUV (no-cab robotic SUV) and Husky UGV.
Scope: implemented by research institutions with the aim of developing applications for agriculture.
Function: harvesting, mowing, hauling, research.
Testing:testing is carried out on asparagus using a laser scanner to detect stems and cut them inside the soil; the removal of manure from poultry farms during the cleaning of barns; identification of areas on the field where the cows urinate for the subsequent cultivation of the soil so that the grass continues to grow; mowing in the area between rows of fruit trees in orchards; transportation of wagons with hay / straw to the shed and back; transportation of chemical fillers to spraying places; export of manure.
Availability: currently sold only to academic and research organizations.
Price: from $ 12,000 to $ 100,000 depending on configuration.
Clearpath Grizzly RUV pulling equipment
11. Company: Autonomous Solutions (ASI), Petersboro, Utah.
Website: asirobots.com
Product: Forge Robotic Platform, a robotic platform to operate the skid steer loader offline or remotely.
ASI: versatile, fully equipped vehicle
. Application: vineyards.
Function: pruning and spraying.
Testing: Field trials in Kansas and Texas.
Availability: mid-2015.
Price: $ 75,000– $ 150,000 per unit (includes a complete mini-loader and a set for the driver), depending on the configuration of the mini-loader
12. Company: Wageningen UR (University and Research Center), Wageningen, the Netherlands, and Agritronics, Sint Annaparochie, the Netherlands.
Website: wageningenur.nl and agritronics.nl
Product: Research to develop intelligent systems for high-quality harvesting for commercial research partners and suppliers.
Scope: sweet pepper in the Netherlands, apples and grapes in Belgium, mounted spraying in Slovenia and spot spraying in Italy.
Function: harvesting and spraying (spot and mounted).
Testing:testing was carried out on sweet pepper in July in a commercial greenhouse; on apples and grapes - completed. Field spray tests have been completed. A new combine with visual quality control and a surveillance system for broccoli is being developed jointly with the Agritronics startup in Sint Annaporochi, the Netherlands.
Availability: development will take several years.
13. Company: Vision Robotics, San Diego, California.
Website: visionrobotics.com
Product: Vision Robotics 6-Line salad thinner and vine pruner.
Scope: California.
Function: vine pruning testing; salad thinner is already on sale.
Testing: Testing and development of the pruning shears for the vine can be completed in less than 18 months, depending on funding.
Availability: salad thinner is already on sale; secateurs can be purchased at the beginning of 2016.
Price: salad thinner - from $ 140,000 and above (depending on configuration); pruners are likely to be sold at the same price.
14. Company: Precision Hawk, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Website: precisionhawk.com
Product: Lancaster UAV with various options for plug-in sensors and Datamapper.
Scope: Ontario, Canada.
Function: providing data to agronomist researchers, consultants, farmers and ranchers for management decisions on farms.
Testing: field testing as part of Canada’s specific liquid fuel consumption for several years. Most research and development is done in Ontario, Canada. Over the past six months, he has received a number of government licenses from the Federal Air Transport Agency to conduct field trials and research in the United States with institutions such as North Carolina State University, Texas A&M University, Kansas State University, and Cornell University.
Availability:70% sold in different countries. He took part in a number of projects together with American companies for specific research projects.
Price: Lancaster base platform $ 15,000 plus sensors and other advanced options.
15. Company: F Poulsen Engineering ApS, Hvalso, Denmark.
Website: visionweeding.com
Product: ROBOVATOR thermal and / or hydraulic cultivator.
Scope: 30 cultivators are already working in the United Kingdom, the European Union and Canada.
Function: weeding and thinning lettuce, cabbage, dill and onions.
Testing: in California (before distribution in North America).
Availability: went on sale in 2011, after 8 years of testing and development.
Price: 5-row configuration, sold in Europe at a price of 80,000 euros ($ 100,000).
16. Company: Kinze Manufacturing, Williamsburg, Iowa and Jaybridge Robotics, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Website: kinze.com and jaybridge.com
Product: an automated system for harvesting row crops - a stand-alone tractor and grain truck.
Scope: harvesting of corn and soybeans, Iowa and Illinois.
Function: independently sprinkles grain from combines into the truck’s capacity and delivers it to the fields.
Testing:testing of the autonomous harvesting system has been carried out since 2012; in 2013, three farmers from Iowa and Illinois rented the system and used it on their own, without supervision from Kinze. The Kinze system has a set of standard components, including a GPS module, a radar, laser sensors and video cameras, and software, which determines obstacles. Developed in conjunction with Jaybridge Robotics.
Availability: Kinze does not currently sell a harvesting system, but it soon promises to release the harvester on sale.
Price: not yet installed for a system that includes an unmanned control module, navigation system, route planning, communication with the combine and control software.
17. Company: Agrobotics, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Website: agrobotics.com
Product: AutoProbe, soil sampling system.
Scope: corn belt in the Midwest of the USA.
Function: AutoProbe is a towed implement that attaches to the tractor at the rear to ensure consistent, accurate, and seamless soil sampling. Productivity - more than 2500 samples per hour.
Testing: for 7 years in the Mississippi Delta.
Availability: currently available as a soil sampling service and for sale; live demonstrations are held at various agricultural exhibitions in the USA.
18. Company: Amazone-Werke Gmbh, Hasbergen, Germany.
Website: info.amazone.de
Product: Amazone-Bosch BoniRob - lightweight field robot
Application: work in experimental sites of corn and wheat in Germany.
Function: autonomous field robots capable of moving in any direction are designed to work in “teams”.
Testing: a universal lightweight robot for weeding, fertilizer, control, developed by Robert Bosch GmbH.
Availability: only 2 ready; no sales plans were announced.
19. Company: Helper Robotech, Gimhae, Republic of Korea.
Website: helpersys.co.kr
Product: BoniRob - field robot for grafting fruits and vegetables
Applications: Korea, Japan and China.
Function: Vaccination is most common in European and Asian countries, as well as in greenhouses around the world, where cultural turnover is no longer applied and all free land is heavily used. Robotic vaccination is a relatively new method, although various mechanisms for vaccination have been used before.
20. Company: AGCO Fendt, Daluth, Georgia.
Website: agcocorp.com
Product: GuideConnect, SectionControl and VarioGuide.
AGCO Fendt GuideConnect - dual system
Automatic control system AGCO Fendt VarioGuide
Application: universal.
Function: SectionControl integrates various data and allows fully automatic control via GNSS for ISOBUS-compatible sprayers, dusters and seed drills; VarioGuide - an automatic control system for any time of the day; newGuideConnect - a development that enables the joint use of two tractors, one of which is unmanned.
Testing:GuideConnect is under development, the date of sale is still unknown; the machine is not equipped with its own obstacle detection system - perhaps because the product is still being developed.
Availability: All configurations except GuideConnect are available in the EU and USA.
21. Company: Rowbot, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Website: rowbot.com
Product: Rowbot is an unmanned multi-purpose platform and is capable of moving between rows of corn. Used for: applying nitrogen fertilizers in accordance with the needs of corn plants. It can also collect sensor data for current and future work. GPS and several sensors allow the robot not to harm the plants.
Rowbot in a corn field. Rowbots work in nitrogen fertilizer teams according to plant needs.
Scope: US corn belt.
Function: Rowbot moves between rows in corn fields or under leaves, knows how to distribute nitrogen fertilizers, or sow seeds of cereal crops.
Testing:The company is working with Carnegie Robotics to develop the Rowbot.
Availability: test marketing was launched this year during the seasonal application of nitrogen fertilizers and sowing; It is planned to expand the range of services in 2015.
22. Company: senseFly, Chesot-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland.
Website: sensefly.com
Product: eBee Ag.
eBee Ag from senseFly
eBee Ag from senseFly, automatic control system and shipping container
Application: universal.
Feature: The eBee Ag system includes eMotion software and a packaging case. Software and cameras support a resolution of 2 centimeters per pixel. Together, these two components are able to create extremely accurate 3D terrain maps and play 45 minutes of flight in a recording.
Testing: no data.
Availability: EBee ag is now in stock.
Price: approximately $ 12,000 for the entire system.
23. Company: Conic Systems, Barcelona, Spain.
Website: conic-system.com
Product: EMP-300 plant grafting robot.
Plant grafting robot EMP-300 from Conic Systems
Scope: universal.
Function: possible grafting of various vegetable crops and other greenhouse plants.
Testing: no data.
Availability: in stock.
24. Company: Naio Technologies, Toulouse, France.
Website: naio-technologies.com
Product: Field Robot Naio Technologies Oz.
Field Robot Naio Technologies Oz
Application: mainly in France.
Testing: testing a new-generation robot Naio Technologies Oz (with an improved navigation system) is carried out in real conditions in France.
Function: Naio Technologies Oz is an autonomous electric tractor that can be used both for harvesting and for transporting crops. Oz functions as a self-propelled robotic tool.
Availability: sales began in 2013.
Price:at the stage of entering the market, robots are leased in order to familiarize consumers with the new line of products and correct deficiencies discovered during use. The rental price depends on the configuration and ranges from $ 315 to $ 475 per month.
25. Company: Robotic Harvesting, Symi Valley, California.
Product: berry harvesting machine, information collection and mobile platform.
Berry Harvesting Machine
Scope: California.
Testing: currently ongoing in California.
Function: a stand-alone mobile device draws up a 3D map of the location of vegetables and fruits, then the robotic hand carefully picks the detected fruit and places it on the conveyor belt.