Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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Yanmar’s April 2024 account traced the YV01 vineyard robot from grower requirements and steep-slope trials to operational use, with a weeding tool added to the partnership’s development programme.
Monarch’s December 2022 production launch put electric, driver-optional MK-V tractors into a customer fleet, with NVIDIA describing how onboard cameras and Jetson modules supported navigation, monitoring and implement-related applications.
Mahindra demonstrated a driverless tractor in Chennai in September 2017, outlining automated row following, headland turns and implement lifting alongside geofencing and remote controls for field operations.
XAG’s June 2021 report described an orchard demonstration in Nagano where its R150 vehicle sprayed a pollen solution, extending agricultural ground robotics beyond weeding and conventional crop protection.
Mahindra’s October 2021 app release brought multilingual crop guidance and farm records together with a separate image-based pest and disease tool, illustrating a service-led approach to digital farming.
Naïo Technologies outlined a broader robot range in January 2022, including Jo for narrow vineyards and Orio for row crops, alongside plans to offer robotic services in the United States.
VitiBot announced in July 2022 that SDF had acquired a majority stake, combining the French company’s electric Bakus vineyard robots with the manufacturing and commercial capabilities of an established agricultural-equipment group.
In August 2022, Brazil-founded Solinftec introduced a spraying version of its Solix field robot and a manufacturing partnership, extending a solar-powered scouting concept toward autonomous spot treatment in North American fields.
In May 2024, BASF reported the launch of Stara’s Imperador 4000 Eco Spray with ONE SMART SPRAY technology, combining onboard weed detection, selective application and digital agronomic records for Latin American farming.
The University of Canterbury reported camera-based reconstruction of orchard and vineyard plants in July 2026, with testing across commercial farms and a planned HoloCrop spinout for precision horticulture.
A June 2024 Stellenbosch University feature describes the Dassie vineyard prototype and Carlos Poblete-Echeverría’s digital-agriculture research, linking mobile measurements to more detailed information about individual vines.
ETH Zurich highlighted a July 2024 award for research on planning autonomous routes through orchards and vineyards, developed within the Lonomy programme and building on earlier agricultural robotics work.
