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RetiredUnited KingdomFully autonomous

Silsoe Research Institute · working robot

Driverless vegetable tractor

A small research tractor for vegetable and root crops that used camera image analysis to steer itself.

Price
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Height
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Battery
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Why it matters

An early use of machine vision to guide a driverless farm tractor.

Real-world use

No customers or deployments reported yet.

Timeline

First shown
1996
Released
Not yet
Public demonstration of autonomous spot spraying of individual cauliflower plants, 1996

Public attention

A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.

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What’s inside

No component details published yet.

Movement
Wheeled base
How it runs
Fully autonomous. Does its job with nobody at the controls.

From the maker

Driverless vegetable tractor is the only machine from Silsoe Research Institute in the atlas.

Made, sold and where

No production or sales figures published yet.

Price
Not published
How to get one
No official buying page found

Sources

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Smart Droplets research project The Evolution of Tractors and the Rise of Autonomous Farming Solutions

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