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The latest news on robots built for farm work, from weeders and harvesters to milking and barn robots. Each headline links to the original publisher, with a short summary written by Agribot News.
An Ohio organic grain grower who once doubted driverless machines hosted a Fendt Harvest Tour stop where a grain cart with PTx OutRun autonomy ran beside the combine with nobody in the tractor. He now sees a place for it on big farms short of help, but says handing a costly tractor over to software takes real trust.
Earth Rover has begun shipping CLAWS, a solar-assisted field robot that uses cameras and AI to find weeds in onions, carrots and brassicas and kills them with brief pulses of concentrated light instead of chemicals. Ten units are sold, more are being built, and the company wants to adapt the design for cereals and oilseeds next.
A California Ag Tech Alliance webinar on The Mixing Bowl's 2026 crop robotics map counted more than 400 companies, up about a quarter since 2024, yet robotic fruit picking is still the hardest nut to crack. Panelists said autonomous tractors, precision sprayers and crop-care robots will reach orchards sooner, and urged growers to test machines on their own ground first.
French maker Naio has added a vegetable-transplanting tool to its small electric Oz robot, which was best known for mechanical weeding. Setting plants at exact spacing makes later weeding passes easier, and with more than 35 attachments and RTK field maps the robot can now seed, till, mow and haul produce, covering close to an acre a day on one charge.
A grape grower in Argentina's Río Negro valley describes an electric, AI-guided ground robot that travels vineyard and orchard rows applying sprays in fine droplets to cut water use. He shares rough prices of about $20,000 to $25,000 for the robots and $40,000 for a large drone, and suggests hiring custom service as a cheaper start. (Article in Spanish.)
Starting with the 2027 planting season, Sabanto's retrofit kit will let a tractor pull a planter fitted with Precision Planting's Gen 3 20|20 monitor with nobody in the cab. The 20|20 keeps handling seeding and rates row by row, and growers set how far a row can drift before the system pauses or sends an alert.