AI and automation are transforming agriculture with autonomous tractors, fruit-picking robots and drones, remote sensing, image analytics, and soft intelligence
William Boston / Wall Street Journal : Forums: r/Futurology Forums: r/Futurology : Drones, AI and Robot Pickers: Meet the Fully Autonomous Farm | New technologies are paving the way for farms that c...
How wartime GPS jamming has negatively impacted agriculture in Israel; in 2021, ~70% of Israeli farmers used GPS-guided equipment and precision-farming tech
Marissa Newman / Bloomberg : X: @oliviasolon . LinkedIn: Dror Meiri X: Olivia Solon / @oliviasolon : Super interesting story about how wartime GPS jamming has affected farmers whose tractors have his...
Monarch Tractor, which makes autonomous electric tractors, raised a $133M Series C co-led by Astanor and HH-CTBC Partnership at a $500M+ valuation
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Many US farmers had to halt their planting operations after a solar storm broke critical GPS and precision farming functionality in tractors and other equipment
The solar storm that brought the aurora borealis to large parts of the United States this weekend also broke critical GPS …
Bluewhite, which offers “robots-as-a-service” including autonomous robots that can be retrofitted to tractors, raised a $39M Series C led by Insight Partners
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John Deere plans to use SpaceX's Starlink service to provide satellite internet connections for tractors, harvesters, and other equipment in remote areas
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Q&A with Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa on licensing the autonomous electric tractor startup's tech to other companies, the future of farming, and more
Monarch Tractor's Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI. LinkedIn: Shruti Bhat LinkedIn: Shruti Bhat : I'm intimately fa...
Tractor maker Deere, which plans self-driving tractors in 2022, predicts that 10% of its revenue will come from software fees by the end of the decade
including cutting grass, churning it to dry, laying fertilizer, and harvesting — will be entirely automated. https://twitter.com/...
A “jailbreak” for John Deere tractors, helping farmers modify and repair them, highlights issues with securing farm equipment and the right-to-repair debate
A hacker has formulated an exploit that provides root access to two popular models of the company's farm equipment.
Profile of PodSwap, a startup offering a battery replacement service for Apple's AirPods, and a great example of why we need right-to-repair legislation
breathing new life into the #RightToRepair. @kifleswing @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/... Alex Russell / @slightlylate : Watching Apple lose this one is amazingly satisfying. No greenwash thick enough, t...