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FIELD ROBOTS CATALOGUE ▶▶▶
A pricing model that is helping to accelerate the adoption as well as the affordability of field and harvest robots is the ‘as a service’ concept. Several, perhaps most robot manufacturers of- fer such a AaS concept. They no longer sell equipment but offer services such as weed- free fields or maintained hectares. In general, agriculture seems to be lagging behind other industries such as construction and mining, where rental and pay-per-use has become the standard. But, as consumer products and espe- cially streaming services are increasingly sub- scription or pay-per-use based, we will surely see more and more farmers buying weed and disease-free services or maybe even healthy crop services from robot manufacturers and input providers.
Stay tuned to our website As a printed robot catalogue will always lag behind an online version, we invite you to check out the constantly updated field and harvest robot catalogue on www.futurefarm-
ing.com. Do you have a robot that you feel should be included in our catalogue? If so, please let us know.
It’s a challenge to replace the skills, experience, care and speed of human harvesters, but gradually robots are able to take over the harvesting of fruits such as apples, kiwis, mangos, water melons and others.
Agrobot Bug Vacuum robot for lygus pest control
Manufacturer: Agrobot (Spain) Robot(s): Bug Vacuum Task(s): vacuum robot for lygus pest control Development start: 2017 Pricing: sells at US$ 86,000 Units active: a few in California Description: The Bug Vacuum robot is an autonomous vacuum ro- bot with a combustion engine for lygus pest control that navigates reactively across the field. The farmer just has to transport it to the kick-off point and select ‘automatic mode’. The robot detects bed fur- rows as guidance references as long as it is within the row. Once fur- rows end, the navigation controller decides on the next move: cross to the next row, turn around or finish the routine. Availability: The Bug Vacuum robot is currently available in Califor- nia and in Europe.
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▶ FUTURE FARMING | 20 November 2020
Curious about the Field Robots Catalogue? Visit:
http://misset.com/field-robots/
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