AutoWeed was recently invited to attend a groundbreaking field day at Cooktown QLD held by Cape York NRM focusing on solutions for soils and weeds with around 30 graziers and land managers in attendance. The field day represents a new effort by Cape York NRM to provide extension services to land managers in far North […]

I appeared on the WeedSmart Podcast with Jess Strauss and Peter Newman. We discussed the present and future of green-on-green weed spot spraying technology, and the new GRDC funded project by the University of Sydney to collate a large open source dataset of weeds and crops from the Australian grains industry. AutoWeed attended Sydney University’s […]

AutoWeed was invited by Michael Walsh and Guy Coleman’s Precision Weed Control Lab from the University of Sydney to contribute to a Machine Learning workshop focusing on Weed Recognition. Also in attendance were other technology providers from John Deere and Bayer, an array of talented researchers from Australia and around the world, as well as […]

AutoWeed was invited to demonstrate our ATV prototype in an Oats crop at WeedSmart Week in Emerald 2019. The day prior to the demonstration, the AutoWeed prototype was used to collect tens of thousands of images of Milk thistle and unwanted Chickpea in an Oats paddock. These images were labelled and fed into a deep […]

AutoWeed was invited on behalf of North West Local Land Services to demonstrate their ATV green-on-green spot spraying prototype targeting Turnip Weed in an Oats paddock at the University of Sydney’s Nowley Farm in Spring Ridge NSW. AutoWeed engineers started work days prior to the demonstration to collect tens of thousands of images of the […]