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deere 8r tractor with agco outrun autonomous system
Crops, Equipment, Machinery

Can autonomous systems cut costs?

Agco claims its prototype Outrun system has shown ROI benefits

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Could having autonomous equipment working on your farm improve the operation’s overall profit picture? Agco claims it has demonstrated exactly that during initial field trials of its Outrun retrofit autonomy kit, which it introduced to the farm media near Salina, Kansas in late June. “What we’re providing is a kit that takes a tractor and […] Read more
This T4 tractor will be used in NH’s autonomy field trials in 
a California winery.
Machinery

New Holland joins the autonomous field trials

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Back in 2016, at the same show Case IH unveiled its autonomous Magnum, New Holland held a similar press event pulling the wraps off its version of an autonomous tractor, the NHDrive T7. The idea, according to the brand was to ”illustrate possible row crop applications” with that model, which unlike the Magnum included an […] Read more
SeedMaster’s Norbert Beaujot sees DOT technology as one solution to a shortage of skilled operators.
Machinery

Not just a driverless tractor, but no tractor at all

A global launch at Ag in Motion could change the way you farm

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While farmers have been waiting impatiently for equipment designers to commercialize the driverless tractor, Prairie inventor and entrepreneur Norbert Beaujot has found a way to ditch the tractor altogether. And he’s rolling it out for the first time in July 18 to 20 at Ag in Motion (AIM), Western Canada’s outdoor farm show now in […] Read more
An Autonomous Greenbot tractor with attached roto-tiller on display at Agritechnica. 

Machinery

Heading toward autonomy

On display at Agritechnica: a driverless Dutch-built tractor hits the market

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General purpose, completely autonomous (driverless) tractors may be the holy grail of farm equipment design. And over the past few years a wide variety of companies have offered farmers enticing glimpses of what the future may hold in that area. There have been a number of limited-use robotic machines introduced to do specific tasks on […] Read more
VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software
Crops, News

VIDEO: Driverless tractors and open-source software

Reimer Robotics takes first prize in Manitoba Ag Days Inventors' Showcase

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Matthew Reimer was as surprised as anyone when he was awarded first prize for his driverless tractor system at Manitoba Ag Days in Brandon on Jan. 20, but his invention is worthy of the title. The Inventors’ Showcase winner, and president of Reimer Robotics, has built a system to move tractors – driverless no less, with […] Read more

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