Louwrens Erasmus is the founder and editor of Field Circuit. He writes about the technology, infrastructure, operations and economics behind modern agriculture.
The agreement covers sales and support in Germany and the Netherlands, where the AX-1 is already commercially available; France and the UK are described as being considered.
A newly published systematic review of 58 peer-reviewed studies argues that tree-based models on structured sensor data define precision-agriculture decision support.
The company says SAMI has moved beyond prototype onto commercial produce. Sami Robotics has not published a throughput figure a grower could use to model payback against a harvest crew, and its own caveat says performance depends on crop density, maturity distribution and field conditions.
Weenat reports over 30,000 agro-weather sensors on unlicensed LPWAN, split 15,000 on the Sigfox 0G Network and 15,000 on LoRaWAN. The sources say the sensors switch between networks according to the best availability; the failover timing, selection logic and dual-subscription economics stay unspecif
The 2026 Crop Robotics Landscape lists more than 400 companies, up on the 2024 edition, and a fifth of the 2024 names exited the 2026 edition.
The cooperative now holds equity in the developer whose weeding robots its Cap 2030 plan points toward, which is the reason to want an independent cost test, not the reason to skip one.
GUSS plans to add Ouster's native-colour Rev8 OS0 lidar to its next-generation orchard and vineyard sprayers because satellite positioning is not enough beneath a dense canopy.
A vendor claim of commercial deployment, a design that grabs rather than cuts, and four numbers a grower would need to price the machine against a herbicide programme — none of which appear in the public record.
AgXeed reports that the AgBot T2 7 SERIES ran a vegetable rotation with a Carbon Robotics LaserWeeder at Axel Månsson A/S, at 150 hours a week fully autonomous. A real operator account, and an interested-party one: no cost, labour-hour, downtime or service figure has been published.
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The NVD-tracked flaws in IXON VPN Client before 1.4.4 can take a low-privileged user to root or SYSTEM. Field Circuit reads them as a warning that the remote-access PC, not the tunnel, is the real OT boundary.
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CISA, the NSA and the FBI have treated a pattern of AI inference traffic as a national-security problem, even though at the API/query layer it is indistinguishable from ordinary use. The consequence is not a patch. It is monitoring, rate-limiting and contract design.
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A recent CISA advisory about vulnerabilities in the Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT communication module, some dating back to 2009, underscores the profound challenge of managing legacy risks in industrial control systems and demands a shift in operational security strategy.