Solar-powered seeding and weeding robot to be unveiled at Ploughing

No manual work, and carbon neutral: The FarmDroid FD20 ‘is the first truly commercial autonomous robot operating on farms’

Niall Hurson

Among the millions of euro worth of agricultural and plant machinery on display at the National Ploughing Championships will be a ‘solar-powered seed-n-weed’ robot produced by FarmDroid.

IAM Agricultural Machinery have been appointed the sole distributor for FarmDroid in Ireland and Northern Ireland, and will be showcasing the new innovation for the first time in this country at Ratheniska.