Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
Robotics. Intelligence. Agriculture.
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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.
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.
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.
Cornell reported field evaluations of PhytoPatholoBot in September 2025, combining autonomous row travel and canopy imaging to assess grape disease with performance comparable to experienced scouts in the study.
The European project examined adoption barriers and existing tools across diverse farms, arguing that digital innovation should support ecological management and farmer control rather than add complexity by default.
Yamaha Agriculture and Croplands extend the autonomous platform’s tasks with controlled herbicide application and mechanical protection around vines and trees.
Promodis support gives INRAE’s experimental facility additional autonomous tractors for evaluating robotics in vegetable production and vineyards.
