To the moon and beyond for on-farm robotics
Tevel, one of our FutureFARM case studies this week, has raised $32m to date, with key investors including Kubota, the parent company of Kverneland. Picture: Tevel
It’s an indicator of just how seriously the robotics industry is taking on-farm automation when the team behind driverless cars and Mars rovers, says it is now taking on its biggest challenge yet – developing autonomous robots to grow crops at “superhuman scale”.
The tech world knows agriculture is big business; Ag-tech is a flourishing industry, having exploded from a $1bn annual global spend in 2012, to $10.2bn a decade later in 2022, according to the latest report from ag-tech investor Agfunder.
