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Swiss company Ecorobotix announced a $52 million funding package in May 2023 to expand its plant-recognition and precision-spraying business, with the Americas identified as an important market for growth.
AGCO and Trimble closed their PTx Trimble joint venture in April 2024, combining Trimble’s agricultural technology business with JCA Technologies to serve factory-installed and retrofit precision-farming applications across machinery brands.
Norwegian company Kilter reported that 54 AX-1 robots treated 4,265 hectares during part of 2026, comparing their targeted applications with a 250-litre-per-hectare broadcast baseline to quantify avoided spray mixture.
India’s Press Information Bureau reported FarmBot in May 2025, describing a semi-automatic tracked platform that combines a robotic arm, leaf-image analysis and pesticide application under agricultural research.
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 OdinsAEye consortium will connect tractor-mounted cameras, weed recognition and farm software, backed by DKK 8.3 million from Innovation Fund Denmark.
