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Large robots designed to pick up rocks automatically might be coming to the farm, thanks to significant advancements made in the field of agricultural technology.
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In the past year, TerraClear has deployed early versions of their solution that both map and clear fields of rocks. These rocks not only break the backs of those picking them up, but break increasingly expensive precision machinery that is in common use by farmers for planting, irrigating and harvesting. Medium to large farms incur anywhere from $5,000 to $150,000 worth of damage and cost, even more annually for the very large farms. Spread out over hundreds of millions of acres across the globe, that's a massive unaddressed opportunity. Evan Aardema, a farmer and customer in southern Idaho s...
Rock picking is probably not the first thing you think about when you think agricultural robotics. Understandably so. There are a number of companies out there looking to automate aspects like fruit and vegetable picking, weeding and field tending, but rocks are still a major issue for many farmers. They’re big, they’re heavy and they […]
New funding: TerraClear, the ag tech startup that's using artificial intelligence and robotics to help farmers deal with costly and time-consuming rocks in…