I’m in Sacramento, Calif., this week at FIRA USA and we’re just going to get right into it. Why don’t you take a look at some of the newest and most exciting Ag technology on display at this year’s conference.

“Aigen is a solar powered autonomous weeding robotics company. We are a truly solar one with a solar panel on top charging the robotics system. And it runs in a fleet format so you deploy these robots on the field from the emergence of the crop all the way to full canopy. And so, the system drives through the fields with camera systems pointing down, identifies the weeds and the crops and it removes them with mechanical hoes on the back.”

“So we like to think of the element robot, which is what you’re looking at here, as a terrestrial satellite rover. It has all the connectivity and data collection capability of a satellite out in space that’s part of that true solar, fully off grid, totally autonomous — but it’s here on earth so, it’s roaming around. And what we wanted to focus on was delivering value to customers. So, what we heard loud and clear from all the growers we spoke to was that data is great and insights are better but none of that matters if you can’t immediately turn that into action. So the robot is equipped to identify crops, differentiate them from weeds and then make a striking decision and eliminate the weeds in real time. It’s all edge compute, it’s happening on board so you have the data but you have action and that’s kind of our internal tagline is data to action.”

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