Robotic Following Cart to Replace Light Duty Tractor Tasks?

candersen10 · Jan 14, 2025

What this looks like now:

Gale Hawkins · Jan 15, 2025

candersen10 said:
What this looks like now:

Something like this could get very interesting as the prices of batteries are dropping and more and more people are getting accustomed to this type of equipment. I could see someone possibly buying something like this and then doing custom clean up work. I have a lot of steep embankments and stuff that I would pay to get done once or twice a year. Thanks for the link.

candersen10 · Jan 16, 2025

yup, this can do super steep stuff with a remote or autonomously, then do wide areas and rows autonomously also. If you love to mow, it is not for you. If you want to spend your time doing something else, or to have your crew / employees do other work, it's spot on...

Past above, any operation where there is more than 600 hours of use a year, it's about a 30-50% roi (i.e. spend $1 on autonomy to get 1.30 to 1.50 back).

candersen10 · Mar 30, 2025

Here's what this looks like now. Can plant, move logs, do tillage, etc. and let the robot keep the mowing work clean always:

daugen · Mar 31, 2025

nice to see it working. Not sure a mower of that size makes sense in a field like that vs 12 foot batwing
though clearly he is happy about multitasking while mowing. Seems analogous to using a Roomba to clean a 4000 sf house.

I think your timing is great, unfortunately due to the imminent loss of a lot of farm workers shortly.