Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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The GUDP-supported FarmDroid Vision project is developing AI camera capabilities for the Danish field robot, including recognizing failed emergence and working in crops that the robot did not sow.
Denmark’s FarmDroid raised €10.5 million from Convent Capital, EIFO and Navus Ventures in 2024 to expand its solar-powered seeding, weeding and precision-spraying business internationally.
New Holland presented two R4 autonomous concepts for vineyards and orchards, using electric or hybrid power and existing implements to automate repetitive inter-row work under remote supervision.
John Deere’s CES 2025 announcement expanded its autonomy programme to the 9RX and 5ML orchard tractor, combining new perception hardware with remote supervision through Operations Center Mobile.
University of Queensland researchers reported a mobile root-sensing system in July 2025, combining an autonomous robot with electromagnetic measurements to investigate rooting traits, water access and crop performance.
A QUT-led programme announced in February 2024 set out to automate banana de-handing with robot arms and computer vision, addressing a repetitive, physically demanding stage of postharvest processing.
India’s agriculture ministry described ICAR research spanning robotic apple harvesting, machine-vision grading, connected cold storage and digital twins, linking mechanization with production quality and supply-chain monitoring.
Yanmar’s February 2024 tractor update added improved controls and field-data sharing, with separate robot and auto tractor models addressing different levels of operator involvement in Japanese rice production.
Kubota announced two autonomous platform concepts for Expo 2025 in Osaka: a transformable machine for multiple agricultural tasks and an articulated platform intended for uneven terrain and transport.
IRRI and XAG announced a research partnership in January 2025 to validate smart agricultural technologies in rice-based cropping systems, with drones donated through Philippine partner Agridom.
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.
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.
