Time now to go Ahead of the Curve with Rhett Schildroth, chief technology officer at MACH, an OEM provider of autonomous software and hardware. He says this kind of technology has come a long way and is pushing towards the mainstream faster than you might think.  

“This is our full remote control with operator interface where you can actually lay out your entire field, create a job and run field with it, as well as one of our sensors for obstacle detection. We have a system with compute built into it. It’s looking out at the perimieter, looking for people, vehicles, animals, anything that might get in the way and cause the vehicle to stop or go around those obstacles.”

“I think what people might want to realize is how far this technology has come. Some applications like GUSS orchard sprayers, where you can go to your dealers and write checks for this now. I think you’ll see that at a lot of dealerships in the next 6 months because technology has reached the maturity point where it’s very practical for the average operation to utilize it.”

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