Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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13 stories matching “Agricultural robotics”.
Eight partners from Germany, France and the Netherlands signed a cooperation agreement to advance agricultural robotics, linking research and industry around autonomous cultivation, harvesting and machinery safety.
Malaysia’s Poladrone announced a US$4.29 million seed round in October 2021, linking drone development with service centres, spare parts and training for agricultural customers across the region.
CNH Industrial completed its acquisition of Raven Industries in November 2021, bringing precision-agriculture capabilities in house and announcing plans for the first integrated products to become available during 2022.
Burro announced a $24 million Series B in January 2024 and introduced Grande, extending its outdoor carrier concept from worker-scale loads toward pallets, trailer towing and navigation between indoor and outdoor areas.
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.
Ce Yang’s University of Minnesota laboratory presented a small quadruped prototype in October 2024, exploring how legged mobility could support wheat disease phenotyping where other observation platforms struggle.
A final report documents how a pan-European network brought research groups, businesses and innovation hubs together to help agricultural and food-sector robotics move from technical ideas towards practical applications.
An upcoming Copenhagen session will bring robotics researchers, farmers, developers and policymakers together to discuss intercropping, precision weeding and crop monitoring at Green Minds Gather 2026.
France’s Agroecology and Digital research programme supported World FIRA’s 2025 scientific symposium, focusing on how robots can adapt to people, complex environments and changing agricultural practices.
DLG’s 2025 innovation awards recognised two gold and 22 silver medal entries, spanning traction, baling, application technology and sensor-based machine adjustment rather than a single vision of farm automation.
Promodis support gives INRAE’s experimental facility additional autonomous tractors for evaluating robotics in vegetable production and vineyards.
The November engineering conference will examine autonomous machines, sensors, interoperability and powertrains alongside practical machinery design.
