A partnership between 10 different countries, CROPS is a robotics project based in the Netherlands. The goal is to create robots that can replace human labor in agriculture, reducing costs while increasing profits and crop production. It will enable…
Festo is a global company that supplies automation technology to its clients. It is heavily involved in development of the CROPS robots to be used in the greenhouse environment.
Project CROPS developed a robotic system that is able to selectively spray and harvest sweet peppers while autonomously navigating through a greenhouse.
The Steketee IC is an automatic hoeing machine developed by Steketee Machine Factory from The Netherlands. It uses camera images to calculate the positions of cultivated crops, enabling it to hoe around them accurately and quickly. In order to provide…
Case New Holland is a large industrial enterprise that specializes in the construction and agricultural equipment business. Established in 1999, the company has established its name as a global leader in capital goods.
The Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) is the most diverse and well-known research organization in Spain. The CSIC serves as the largest institution committed to multidisciplinary research in the country. Its main goal is to conduct…
Being a French company, Force A specializes in agricultural technology. The company has the goal of becoming a global leader in the market by controlling the partnership and internal areas associated with optical sensors and decision support criteria.
The INIA is an institute of agricultural research that has a mission to generate and transfer knowledge and global technologies to produce innovations in the agricultural sector and improve the competitiveness of the sector.
The Instituto de Automatica Industrial (IAI) serves as an important Research Center in the field of robotics. Associated with the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), it aims at carrying out R&D for the evaluation, development and synthesis…
Irmato Jentjens was formed after Irmato Group bought Jentjens Machinetechniek. It develops solutions that reduce production costs and manual labor, and increase production, quality and safety.
Horizon 2020 announced co-funding for 17 new robotics projects from the initial call, at the beginning of 2014.
Iowa State University uses a robot rover for Enviratron, a research concept in which the growth of plants under varying environmental conditions is monitored by a robot.
