... and benefits include detecting crop stress and disease, predicting crop yields, reducing agrochemical use, overcoming manpower shortages and reducing labour costs and facilitating precision agricultural practices such as highly localised pesticide and herbicide application and the replacement of large, heavy...

...). It is equipped with the variable injection intelligent precision applicator which, like the technology on the Ladybird, delivers controlled and localised quantities of agrochemicals. In 2016, trials were conducted in Cowra, NSW, where the robot autonomously drove up and down crop rows with an accuracy of 4 cm...