Agreenculture, a French start-up, says it can turn autonomy from a moonshot into an upgrade. The bigger question is whether “plug-and-play” can overcome farming’s hardest constraints: safety, service, and trust.
At 2:17am, a tractor is doing what tractors have always done: pulling steel through soil, keeping a straight line, turning at the edge of a field, starting the next pass.
What’s different is the empty cab.
This is the vision that has hovered over farming for years: machines that work longer hours, in tighter windows, with fewer hands. Until recently, autonomy in agriculture has looked like a choice between two extremes: buy a purpose-built robot that does one job well,
