Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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FAPESP reported a programme linking research, connectivity and training across Brazil’s five regions, with local agricultural districts designed to adapt digital technologies to small and medium farming businesses.
The CaSSECs collaboration examined drones as an intermediate observation scale between ground measurements and Sentinel-2 imagery, seeking better estimates of dry forage biomass across heterogeneous Senegalese landscapes.
CIRAD and partners examined digital use among 3,660 farmers in Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Benin, finding that access, electricity and familiar communication tools strongly shaped practical adoption.
A European research project integrated positioning, perception and variable-rate spraying into the WETA robot, addressing the difficulties of moving and applying treatments in narrow, sloping vineyard environments.
The European project combined soft gripping and machine vision in a harvesting prototype, with trials in Greece and Ireland revealing both successful picks and the impact of real facility constraints.
The project’s April 2025 development update described farmer testing of a multilingual prototype, using feedback to refine an app intended to connect farm information with nearby services and communities.
The completed European project reported a robotic crop-care system that combines vehicles, implements and supervisory software, with field pilots examining both operational performance and barriers to adoption.
The European research project paired aerial crop observations with the Bonirob ground platform, exploring how information collected over a field could guide local mechanical or chemical interventions.
Germany’s Agri-Gaia launch linked machinery data, reusable AI components and legal expertise, with the University of Osnabrück contributing field observations and frameworks for exchanging information across organisations.
PAL Robotics reported Italian vineyard trials of an adapted TIAGo++ upper body, exploring the perception, manipulation and human interaction required for collaborative grape harvesting and pruning research.
The European drone project reported an initial flight in Spain focused on equipment familiarisation and checking image outputs, laying groundwork for subsequent crop monitoring rather than claiming validated disease-detection performance.
The Horizon Europe project set out to make agricultural digital solutions more affordable and relevant by combining farmer participation, reusable software and business models suited to smaller operations.
