Australian startup AutoWeed has received a $ 400,000 AUD grant for the development of a smart weed spraying robot that could reduce herbicide usage on sugarcane farms in Great Barrier Reef catchment areas by at least 80 per cent.

Field after field of green cotton plants surrounding Lubbock, Texas, will soon turn into a blanket of white, as just beyond the city limits sits the largest cotton patch in the country.

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Norway and UK-based Saga Robotics has raised €9.5 million in its latest round of funding from international investors, including the Norwegian sovereign climate investment company Nysnø Climate Investments, London-based ADM Capital Europe LLP, and Rabo Food & Agri Innovation Fund – the investment arm of world-leading Dutch agricultural bank, Rabobank. These lead investors were also joined by a group of Norwegian investors including Propagator Venture.

Fendt’s Xaver field robot now has 3 instead of 4 wheels, and is equipped with a seeding unit with a disc coulter.

Insecticide has its uses in controlling harmful pests that could otherwise devastate crops. The trouble, of course, is that oftentimes the use of insecticides comes at grave environmental costs.