Update
3 Feb 2022

John Deere - Autonomous Tractor
At CES 2022 John Deere revealed their fully-autonomous Deere 8R 410 tractor, announcing that it is ready for production and will be available to farmers in the US later in 2022.
6 Jan 2022

John Deere Reveals Fully Autonomous Tractor
John Deere has revealed a fully autonomous tractor that's ready for large-scale production. The machine combines Deere's 8R tractor, TruSet-enabled chisel plow, GPS guidance system, and new advanced technologies. The autonomous tractor will be available to farmers later this year.
External press release
21 Sep 2021

Alaka'i Technologies' Hydrogen Powered eVTOL Skai is on a Mission
Offering a sleek design and premium passenger experience, a radically simple fault-tolerant system with redundant levels of safety and reliability, an airframe-parachute, and hydrogen as its fuel source, Skai is poised to be the safest, cleanest and most versatile air mobility solution. A key part of Skai's innovation is the use of clean, zero-emission hydrogen fuel cells for its power source.
Update
10 Jun 2021

Nidec Japan
Nidec is one of the world's largest motor manufacturers run tightly for cash and gaining advanced technology mainly by acquisition.
External press release
12 Oct 2020

Pontifax AgTech Closes $302 Million Food and AgTech Fund
Firm's Second Fund Oversubscribed, Hits Hard Cap
Full profile interview
5 Sep 2020

Forte Projects LLC
Forte is partnered with Best Circuits and VMG to manufacture an electric motor pump relevant for battery cooling in heavy-duty electric vehicles.
Topic overview
16 Aug 2020

Robotic implements: weeding and beyond
This is the 5th article in our series of articles focused on agricultural robotics.
In this brief article we consider the trends towards vision enabled precision implements (tractor be pulled) enabling ultraprecision site-specific action such as precision weeding.
Youtube
31 Jul 2020

Electric Vehicles in Construction, Agriculture & Mining
Join Dr Peter Harrop in his latest presentation on Electric Vehicles in Construction, Agriculture & Mining, a $100 Billion Market Soon.
8 Jul 2020

Electric Vehicles in Agriculture: Now is the Time
Cars electrify, now farm vehicles. The new 215-page IDTechEx report, "Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Agriculture 2020-2030" explains. This is a drill-down from the popular report, "Electric Vehicles in Construction, Agriculture and Mining 2020-2030".