Innovation
On 25 and 26 May, in Cornaredo (MI), the Cascina Baciocca farm hosted the ACRE event, dedicated to robots and highly automated means for agriculture. The event, organised by Davide Facchinetti of the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Milan in collaboration with Matteo Matteucci of the Milan Polytechnic, offered a preview of what agriculture will be like in the near future
Close Up
The second edition of the event reserved for highly automated mechanical vehicles takes place at the end of May. Organised by the AIRLab of the Politecnico and the Department of Agricultural Sciences of Milan, in partnership with FederUnacoma and open to the public, the event includes a competition of skill among robot models, and an exhibition of the most innovative technologies
Events
The first official competition of autonomous robots for weeding field crops was held in Montoldre (France) from 7 to 10 June. The event, called ACRE (Agri-food Competition for Robot Evaluation) was organised by the Politecnico di Milano and the Department...