Engineering Your Farm

The Hands Free Farm Project and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture

October 01, 2021 Field Agricultural Engineers Episode 11
Engineering Your Farm
The Hands Free Farm Project and the Future of Autonomous Agriculture
Show Notes

Join us for a discussion with Jonathan Gill about the Hands Free Hectare and Hands Free Farm projects, which achieved a world first by farming a hectare of land (now 35 hectares) entirely autonomously. Jonathan is a robotics engineer with a research team at the National Centre for Precision Farming at Harper Adams University in Newport, United Kingdom. We discuss drone technology, the advantages and challenges of fully autonomous field operations, swarm technologies, and Jonathan's vision for the future of autonomous agriculture.  To learn more, visit handsfreehectare.com and handsfree.farm and follow Jonathan on Twitter @AgRobotJon and @FreeHectare.