Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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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.
Case IH introduced Baler Automation in 2023, connecting tractor controls with large-square baler requirements to regulate crop feeding, improve bale consistency and reduce the operator’s workload during harvesting tasks.
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.
Naïo Technologies announced €32 million in financing during 2022, led by Mirova, to expand its agricultural robot business and strengthen industrial operations around mechanical weeding and other field tasks.
Bonsai Robotics acquired farm-ng in July 2025, combining vision-based autonomy with the Amiga modular electric platform and expanding its approach to mixed equipment fleets across specialty agricultural crops.
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.
KRONE and LEMKEN’s September 2025 update presented VTE 3.0, smart implements and a planned 2028 commercial introduction, linking autonomous traction with sensing of the agricultural work process itself.
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.
Dragonfly Aerospace announced the launch of EOS SAT-1 in January 2023, delivering the first spacecraft in EOS Data Analytics’ planned agricultural imaging constellation and beginning calibration after separation.
NASA reported the launch of OpenET’s FARMS interface in March 2025, bringing field comparisons, custom boundaries and repeatable evapotranspiration reports into a mobile-friendly tool for western U.S. agriculture.
