Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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XAG’s November 2025 R Series announcement introduced two electric ground robots for greenhouses, vineyards and orchards, combining route automation with different spraying capacities and operator monitoring functions.
Malaysian company Meraque announced a September 2024 agreement with Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Agriculture to collaborate on drone technology and robotic hardware and software for agricultural and plantation applications.
Malaysia’s Meraque outlined a plan to train more than 500 people in 2024 as it expanded facilities and demonstrated locally developed robots for agriculture and plantation management.
Harper Adams and its partners completed the first drilling operation for the 35-hectare Hands Free Farm in 2020, extending earlier autonomous-cropping research to multiple fields and headland work.
AGCO’s OutRun tillage system received the 2026 Davidson Prize, recognising a retrofit approach that adds driverless tillage to existing tractors and supports remote planning and monitoring of field operations.
Ecorobotix announced $150 million raised across 2024 and 2025 financing rounds, supporting expansion of its AI-based precision-spraying technology, product range and crop-recognition algorithms for plant-level treatment in agriculture.
Fieldwork Robotics announced SEED Innovations’ participation in a £2.5 million Seed+ fundraise, supporting UK commercial trials and plans for multi-robot raspberry-harvesting fleets from 2027, subject to trial results.
FarmDroid’s UK distributor introduced a four-wheel version of the solar-powered seed-and-weed robot at LAMMA 2024, addressing crop-bed access and stability limitations of the earlier three-wheel layout for specialist growers.
Pixelfarming Robotics demonstrated Robot One to international growers at Rijk Zwaan’s winter field days in Murcia, showing plant detection and a laser sweep mode intended to treat a larger target area.
AgEagle introduced the RedEdge-P in October 2021, combining multispectral sensing with a higher-resolution panchromatic imager to support more detailed drone-based analysis of crops, plants and trees.
NC State’s 2021 prototype monitored volatile compounds released by tomato plants, exploring a low-cost wearable approach to detecting plant damage and late-blight infection without waiting for a scouting visit.
A SMART-led collaboration reported a nanosensor that separates signals from two forms of iron in plant tissues, offering researchers a more detailed view of nutrient uptake and movement.
