Bosch partners with SwarmFarm for autonomous farming robots
After agreeing a partnership with engineering firm Bosch, Australian tech firm SwarmFarm expects to see its autonomous farming SwarmBot platform ready for commercial roll out next year. The start-up, which has a development team based on a farm in Central Queensland, aims to help farmers adopt new farming systems, including the use of intelligent mobile robots to automate select tasks. Its SwapNostics system is aimed at making the technology simple, so farmers can diagnose and fix machines themselves, keeping the technology working.
Jocelyn Bate, co-founder and director of SwarmFarm said while the partnership would move them to the next level, they would retain the advantage of the development team being based on-farm in Central Queensland.