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Hands Free hectare

Farm automation 'hackathon' to generate ideas to make farm robotics safer

Agri-Business

over 4 years ago

Farm automation 'hackathon' to generate ideas to make farm robotics safer

Agri-EPI Centre and Hands Free Farm (HFF) have announced they will hold a 'hackathon' to identify new solutions for robotic farming safety.

Tillage focus: Meet a member of the world's first Hands Free Hectare team

Tillage

almost 7 years ago

Tillage focus: Meet a member of the world's first Hands Free Hectare team

Earlier this year AgriLand spoke to Kit Franklin, a member of the Hands Free Hectare (HFH) team, at Harper Adams University.

Watch this 30-year-old combine drive itself

Tillage

over 7 years ago

Watch this 30-year-old combine drive itself

Hands Free Hectare is 1ha of land in Shropshire in the UK which has been dessicated, tilled, sown, fertilised, sprayed and harvested entirely by autonomous machinery. Even the crop walking was carried out using robotics.

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