Labour shortages and rising machinery costs prompted Australian mixed farmer Tom Coggan to invest in autonomous spraying.

More than 400 companies worldwide are now racing to build robots for food crop production - a jump of nearly 25% since 2024.

Swiss manufacturer Ecorobotix is exhibiting a new 12-metre-wide ARA 1200 spot sprayer at the AgroTechniek Holland (ATH) trade ...

AgXeed demonstrated an autonomously operated potato harvester at trade fair PotatoEurope, held on 9 and 10 September in ...

Sceptics will laugh, but it is on its way: an electric tractor with solar panels. US distributor GoSun is set to sell the Moonrider 27. It is a 4-wheel-drive tractor with 27 hp that can optionally be ...

Dutch robot builder Odd.Bot is showing a new version of the Maverick weeding robot at the Agrotechniek Holland (ATH) trade fair, from 16 to 19 September in the Dutch village of Biddinghuizen. The ...

A field robot that performs only one task risks spending too much of the year in the shed, says US robotics company Burro. Following its largest shipment yet to South America, Future Farming asks the ...

French agricultural cooperative group Océalia has acquired a minority stake in startup Cyclair, backing the autonomous weeding robot developer as part of its Cap 2030 strategic plan. The investment, ...

A heavily disguised Claas tractor spotted during field tests in Germany raises an intriguing question: is this another step towards a driverless Claas tractor? Is Claas testing a new tractor? That is ...

Danish grower Axel Månsson has been using an AgXeed T2 7-SERIES with a Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder since April. After several months of field experience, he rates the autonomous tractor on nine ...

Kubota Tractor Corporation has launched WorkSmart Autosteer, a precision guidance system built specifically for compact and utility equipment. The system extends technology traditionally reserved for ...

John Deere is introducing a new AI assistant in John Deere Operations Center. The assistant, called JD, uses data on machines, fields and operations stored in Operations Center to give farmers insight ...