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Farm-ng makes modular robots for a broad range of agricultural work


Agriculture is poised to be one of the next great robotics categories. Everyone needs to eat, and much of what we eat in this part of the world comes from

It can be a difficult space to find a foothold, and a number of those startups have ultimately ended up selling to tractor giant John Deere, which seems intent on completely owning the category. “This naturally led to a modular system, like Legos for our farm customers, that let them build their own solutions at an extremely low cost,” Nvidia vet and newly minted CTO Claire Delaunay tells TechCrunch. “We strive to make our technology accessible to a farmer, be it mechanically easy to adapt, maintain or extend the software to suit their needs […] Having a modular approach is not new in the ag space.

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