What are the main growth/adoption barriers for farming robots? The farmers and operators themselves, because they don’t know how to deal with robots yet. Educating farmers and operators is es- sential to guarantee the success and endurance of robots and au- tonomous vehicles in farming. Most of all, it shouldn’t be an addi- tional ‘problem’ to the farmer’s daily operation and we have to teach him to deal with situations like unplanned stops and especially the restart after such a stop. We try to accelerate and simplify adoption by making our robots work with current day implements to make them not that ‘scary’ to farmers and operators as many other robots.


What will be the next innovation in autonomous vehicles? I believe that will be sensor fusion. Currently, we use RTK-gps for basic navigation as it is extremely robust and it has proven func- tionality. Yes, there’s alternatives like LiDAR, but those currently have disadvantages in farming because of the varying conditions like dust and moving crops. Nonetheless, we prefer cameras and sensors from the automotive industry because of their more inter- esting pricing and robustness. Sensors that will become available as accessories for better or additional functionalities like plant and leaf counting as well as pest detection. These will fuse multiple applications together.


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