Category: Technology

EIMA 2026 Technical Innovations: Agricultural Innovation Looks to the Future

Redazione

Artificial intelligence, automation, autonomous systems, data management, new energy-efficiency solutions and more rational resource use. These are some of the key trends shaping the evolution of agricultural mechanisation, all of which are reflected in the EIMA 2026 Technical Innovations. Innovation in agricultural machinery is not driven solely by entirely new machines. Increasingly, it takes shape through electronic systems, software, sensors and devices designed to make field operations smarter, safer and more precise. This is the picture that emerges from the EIMA 2026 Technical Innovations Competition, promoted by FederUnacoma as part…

Read More

Diess E-Agrartechnik: innovation from cars to tractors

Redazione
Diess E-Agrartechnik

Former Volkswagen Group Ceo Herbert Diess has founded the start-up Diess E-Agrartechnik with the aim of developing compact battery-electric agricultural tractors featuring easily swappable battery packs Although battery-electric vehicles have yet to deliver the expected commercial returns in the automotive sector and agricultural machinery has so far seen more disappointments than successes, some innovators continue to believe in the technology and are working to overcome its two main limitations: limited operating autonomy and lengthy charging times. The latest entrant is Diess E-Agrartechnik, a start-up established in Munich by former Volkswagen…

Read More

Agri-robot Davegi: new arms to agriculture

Redazione
davegi

Powered exclusively by solar energy, agrirobot Davegi also integrates a battery that stores excess energy. This is the autonomous agrirobot developed by the German company Ai.Land “Davegi” is the autonomous agrirobot developed by the German company Ai. Land for horticultural production automation. Operating on the basis of sensors and precision robotic systems, “Davegi” effectively manages the entire production process, from cultivation and monitoring to harvesting and packaging, using a rotating translation system incorporating a torso with two arms and two hands oriented to tend and harvest each vegetable plant individually.…

Read More

Irrivision by Cet Electronics: monitored foliage

Redazione

Cet Electronics has developed the “Irrivision” precision system; it operates using a weather station and soil moisture sensors, complemented by a computer vision system capable of assessing the water status Amidst critical climate change challenges regarding water availability, proper irrigation management is essential to ensuring the environmental sustainability of agricultural production. For this very reason, Cet Electronics has developed the “Irrivision” precision system; it operates using a weather station and soil moisture sensors, complemented by a computer vision system capable of assessing the water status of the foliage through artificial…

Read More

New transporter Merlo Cingo M600Td-e: autonomous and fully electric

Redazione
Merlo Cingo M600Td-e

Presented in 2023 as an inter-row sprayer, the autonomous and fully electric Merlo Cingo M600Td-e prototype enabled the company’s technicians to gain the experience necessary to develop a new vehicle, also autonomous and fully electric but multifunctional, capable not only of transporting materials but also of managing electrically powered implements For years, the Merlo tracked transporter range has been offered with powertrains mainly based on gasoline and diesel engines. These machines also allow their transmission systems to be adapted to the specific missions they are required to perform, ranging from…

Read More

Scaramobile: a prototype car powered by a mix of human and electrical energy (with some doubts)

Redazione
scaramobile

Scaramobile, a prototype car powered by a combination of human pedal power and photovoltaic electricity, was presented in France. The latter is powered by a body almost entirely covered in solar panels Designed by Denis Baulier, a farmer and environmental activist, the new vehicle is called Scaramobile and is driven without a steering wheel using a joystick. The aim is to provide a vehicle capable of meeting local and short-distance travel needs without having to resort to small cars equipped with internal combustion engines. The vehicle weighs 600 kilograms without…

Read More

Agricultural electrification: types and acronyms

Redazione
elettrificazione agricola

Today there are many different hybrid solutions on the market, each identified by a specific acronym behind which lie distinct operating principles and challenges—the same principles and challenges that also apply to hybrid agricultural machinery now gradually entering the market In 1977, Toyota launched the “Prius”, the first mass-produced hybrid car. Since then, hybrid propulsion has become one of the preferred solutions for users, to the point that it now accounts for around 44 percent of the European market, compared to roughly 39 percent for traditional powertrains and about 17…

Read More

The autonomous robot Kubota Agri Concept: beautiful and technological

Redazione
Kubota Agri Concept

The autonomous robot Kubota Agri Concept has been included among the one hundred products identified over the past century by the World Intellectual Property Organization as examples of pleasing and rational design. It is the only agricultural machine on the list and was selected from more than two million product In 1925, to protect the originality of stylistic lines that may characterize any product, the so-called “Hague System” was established, a set of regulations overseen by the World Intellectual Property Organization, abbreviated in English as Wipo. This agency is part…

Read More

Cnh digital systems: everything at your fingertips

Redazione
sistemi digitali cnh

Developed to optimize the work processes and operational capabilities of the machines of the three brands that belong to the Cnh Group, the “FieldOps” platform is an “all-in-one” system within Cnh digital systems, also open to data collected from third-party solutions. In synergy with the “IntelliCentre” platform it also helps to minimize machine downtime According to the study “World Agriculture Towards 2030/2050” by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the global primary sector will need to be able to produce 60 percent of today’s agri-food resources…

Read More

Digital services of McCormick: full-spectrum innovation

Redazione
soluzioni digitali McCormick

The “My McCormick” application enhances the efficiency and productive capabilities of McCormick tractors by integrating all the digital services of McCormick into a single ecosystem. From the telemetry platform “McCormick Fleet & Remote Diagnostic Management” to the service interval planning system “McCormick Efficiency Plan”, and from the satellite guidance technologies “McCormick PSM System” to the strategic support platform “McCormick Farm” The global market for technological solutions underpinning “Agriculture 4.0” is worth more than €20 billion, 30% of which is generated in Europe. According to data analyzed by the “Osservatorio Smart…

Read More