Agricultural Spraying to Benefit from New Robocopter Technology
Hobbyists and the military have fully embraced remote control helicopters. Now agricultural, one of the Earth’s behemoths, is getting on board.
Robohelicopter market leaders include Yamaha, Lely, Yaskawa/Motorman and Kuka. But there are plenty of companies competing for a piece of this $817 million industry, as estimated in 2013.. The market is expected to reach $16.3 billion per year by 2020, according to Winter Green Research (WGR), which reported the market also includes:
| ABB Robotics Agile Planet AgRA: RAS Agricultural Robotics and Automation Agrobot Australian Centre for Field Robotics Blue River Technology Blue River / Khosla Ventures CNH Industrial / Fiat / Case IH cRops 312 Fanuc Georgia Tech Agricultural Robots Google / Boston Dynamics |
Google / Motorola Harvard Robobee Harvest Automation IBM iRobot Jaybridge Robotics KumoTek Kyoto University Millennial Net NARO, a Japanese Incorporated Administrative Agency National Agriculture and Food Research Organization Japanese National Agriculture and Food Research Organization |
Ossian Agro Automation / Nano Ganesh Precise Path Robotics Robotic Harvesting Sicily Tractor Harvesting Shibuya Seiki Shibuya Kogyo Universidad Politécnica de Madrid University of California, Davis Wall-Ye V.I.N. Robot Yamaha Yaskawa / Motoman Agricultural Robotic Research Labs |
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