Bosch debuts new autonomous farming robot

Posted on 29 Nov 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

German manufacturer Bosch has shown off one of the world’s most efficient and specialised farming robots.

Called the ‘Bonirob’, the robot was developed by Deepfield Robotics, a startup owned by Bosch. Primarily, the robot is able to rapidly cover a wide amount of cropland space on a farm and rapidly identify which plants are present. Using satellite navigation and LIDAR it can navigate itself “to the nearest centimetre” though such fields…

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