You could have gatelady’s glass of wine poured, bubble bath ran and her tea on the table when she finishes graft! While you feed and change the weans keep an eye on things via your drone. Life couldn’t get any better!! Yeh looks a cracking future fella
Thank you for another great video. It is very interesting to see and watch the automated machine and to hear your thoughts on it. I wouldn't be surprised to see these poping up on farms in the near future but do agree they have to be more of a multi purpose machine to get the value for money as that is some price tag. It will be interesting to watch how it will progress in the future. Thanks again, and I hope you have a great day tomorrow 💜.
I love technology! I can see the future now. These robots cultivating and planting while you sleep. I can definitely see it cutting grass for hay or silage. Can this one do any harvesting? Maybe if they can make it lighter, there will be less chance of getting stuck in the mud. Saw a video just the other day of a guy spraying his field with a drone. I'd also be interested in the longevity of the machine. With a price tag like that, it probably wouldn't be worth it if it breaks down a lot or has to be replaced in 10 years or so. But if that thing will last you years and years, it could be worth it in the long run.
Yes you’re exactly right the packer scrapers are crap! I’m going to shorten the bar I find its stones bend the scrapers. Glad you’re starting drilling. Harvest is all finished here😎👍
Agree with this, same way that it makes sense in places like US/Canada or Australia. Giant fields that you can sort of set it going and forget about it while you go do something else. The less downtime it has either through not using it or having to set it up/move it somewhere else the more it makes sense
With the broccali you can get a 2nd pick of them they keep putting heads up they smaller but still taste good a new project for gate lady or your staff could help themselves or do a you pick times for small charge or get a foodbank mob. I dont know if you donate that to a food bank if will give a tax relief in the UK
When you have a weather window, it could go all night, where you need some sleep, it doesn't. But if the technology was used in an existing tractor type, that could be turned on/off.... wow😊
Hi Crawford, I know it's the way farming is going but what happens when you break a tine or a bearing goes bad and it runs for hours doing further damage, it just seems you would need someone babysitting it whilst it's working, that's why I think it will be normal tractors that have been retrofitted with this technology but still having someone in the drivers seat when things go wrong.
Hi, to answer your question... operators can remotely monitor a number of parameters, including viewing live camera feeds. Implement manufacturers are developing ‘smart’ implements that are integrated with the AgBot. This will monitor shear bolts, auto reset and even sound as part of the standard process.
@@soilessentials hi thanks for the reply, I have never seen any videos highlighting all that so it answers a lot of questions, I have been out of farming for over thirty years so this looks like science fiction to me as when I worked on the farm we didn’t even have GPs.
@@billy140572 AI technologies are moving at pace and here we are now with real, viable options for the agricultural industry, where relevant. A more sustainable way to farm, operating in narrowing work and weather windows and assisting with labour shortages, we hope to see a few adopters in Scotland soon.
Seems like they need to just make a sensor package to put on standard tractors... the tractors are already all digitally controlled... you just need to be able to get out and leave it to do it's thing while you do something else. then you can drive it to the next field or use it as you normally do.
I want to see the emergency bumper in front of the tracks not hanging way out in front, then if it something comes in form the side (like Betty) the E-stop bumper would hit it.
There is already fully automated tractors and combines in Australia that plant seed, harvest all from the comfort of a university campus, think the only job a human has was picking up the cotton bales after it had been harvested
Very interesting but I don’t notice some concerning safety features. For example the dog in such close proximity at the back of machine and no slow down or halt, with the dog being smaller than human is the sensor not picking the dog up when round about machine due to it not picking it up ?
your combine auger has a hell of a drop from end to trail. Have youer ever thought of putting a sock on to eliminate "wind spillage " and missing the target mate
The question is yes it is more expensive than a tractor ATM but if you include wages into the calculation as well plus reliability ie being poorly. I bet the price gap is not as big as you think and like you said it might be cheaper than contracting someone for a few months of the year when you struggle. Just a thought. And if it could do more as well like spraying sowing ploughing it adds more walue.
Between these and milking robots, then it's going to have to get a hurry up to get there - staff are hard to get - and at least there's a way through to the future :)
I have just seen this machine working this morning up here in Easter Ross but Mary as the lad doing the demonstration called it took a hissie fit and stopped but we think it was because it was 10 o'clock tea time 😂. I do think that there will be more of this type of machine appear in the future as the farming industry has a shortage of staff.
Hi, to answer your question... On land ploughing has been carried out. The AgBot continually monitors it’s heading and also track slip to maintain the guidance path it is on.
Hi, to answer your question... Obstacles including wet patches are pre-planned with the task. The track slip is also monitored and a pre-planned threshold set.
Efficiency gains and mechanisation have reduced the agriculture workforce to about 1/10th over the last 75 years. Automation will make some further advances to reduce the manpower requirements, but i would guess that automation won't make more than a 25-50% reduction.
You set the amount of track slip that it cuts out at, you the get a notification. Can check the cameras on it to see whats up. Then send it off again or go and sort it
Question: with fly tipping on the increase, does the Autonomous tractor detect rubbish that has been thrown and scattered into the field? Another entertaining video Bandit 😂👍🏻
The new skynet this is how the machines will take over not a humanoid robot looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’ll be this thing with a power harrow or a wood chipper on
Hi, to answer your question... If you have included this within your pre-plan, then yes. There is no intelligence on the machine to determine this external factor. However, track slip is monitored and if a threshold is reached, it will stop the task.
prices i should imagine will maybe drop a little in several yrs time too ..providing there are indeed other manufactures selling more of the same ..competition at the moment is minimal...thats what i think but what do i know as im just a silly owd fool
That robot is a neat wee thing, but give it 30 years and just about all farmers will be sat in an office and phoning their mechanic when anything breaks
Hi, to answer your question... In the design process, electric was chosen due to the efficiency of conversion (the diesel engine has a constant load from the generator) and also the torque generated and delivered to the track technology. This solution means its capable of delivering a high torque and power through the track system, in either direction.
@@soilessentials,🤔that is interesting, is there a battery onboard? Do you have a rough figure for how much more energy efficiency a diesel-electric solution is over a similarly capable diesel-hydraulic solution?
@@dfgaJK We don’t rely on battery storage technology. The diesel engine has a constant engine load from the generator. I don’t have an efficiency figure to hand. However, the fuel consumption is comparable with a similar horsepower tractor.
@@soilessentials I assumed by efficiency you meant higher energy efficiency. But if the fuel consumption is the same as a conventional hydraulic tractor that can't be the case. What do you mean by efficiency?
Don't get sucked in, look into the mining for battery materials and you'll find some is mine by kids, slaves. Also what you gonna do if the power goes out? Which we've had warnings about.
I was replaced by a robot makeing parts for feed bins dairy farm is putting robots in were I used to work when I got unstable Angina can't lift n carry mutch
If much rather the future is more like fifty years ago with people working and learning to grow. Not robots and ai and people not working out pretty much only working for the government.
Are these jobs even advertised to locals any more? It is no use saying we can’t get the staff and not bother to bring people into the farming lifestyle. The whole trend is to reduce the workforce to who ultimately? Will all of it simply be done remotely with a travelling band of tech specialists to keep the (very) expensive machines running. Does no one see just how damaging this has all been to society?
You think its hard to get staff now, just wait until the robots are out doing all the fun jobs that attract the youngsters to farming in the first place and they're stuck in the grain store with a brush. Seems to me its a solution to a problem that doesnt exist. The focus should be on making agriculture more appealing to the next generation by using robots to do the bad jobs
That “Mary Queen of Bots” is very interesting.
Great video. 😊
I could watch this machine for the whole day! Thanks so much! :D
You could have gatelady’s glass of wine poured, bubble bath ran and her tea on the table when she finishes graft! While you feed and change the weans keep an eye on things via your drone. Life couldn’t get any better!! Yeh looks a cracking future fella
That was interesting video just show the times we are in 😊
Thank you for another great video. It is very interesting to see and watch the automated machine and to hear your thoughts on it. I wouldn't be surprised to see these poping up on farms in the near future but do agree they have to be more of a multi purpose machine to get the value for money as that is some price tag. It will be interesting to watch how it will progress in the future.
Thanks again, and I hope you have a great day tomorrow 💜.
Cheers you too
John Deere has a fully automated tractor in the making too. Where you can drive it also. Seen a video of it in the us
I love technology! I can see the future now. These robots cultivating and planting while you sleep. I can definitely see it cutting grass for hay or silage. Can this one do any harvesting? Maybe if they can make it lighter, there will be less chance of getting stuck in the mud. Saw a video just the other day of a guy spraying his field with a drone. I'd also be interested in the longevity of the machine. With a price tag like that, it probably wouldn't be worth it if it breaks down a lot or has to be replaced in 10 years or so. But if that thing will last you years and years, it could be worth it in the long run.
Great video Crawford that is some piece of kit 👌
Hi Crawford I love these videos they are fantastic keep it up ❤❤
Yes you’re exactly right the packer scrapers are crap! I’m going to shorten the bar I find its stones bend the scrapers. Glad you’re starting drilling. Harvest is all finished here😎👍
I think the Agg bot has its place in the larger flatter fields in the likes of Lincolnshire etc
Agree with this, same way that it makes sense in places like US/Canada or Australia. Giant fields that you can sort of set it going and forget about it while you go do something else. The less downtime it has either through not using it or having to set it up/move it somewhere else the more it makes sense
Very interesting, the robot technology is only going to improve and will become more commonly used.
Great video and harvesting again here 👍
Oh no Robo Kev on its way😂 at least you won't have to wait till its had its piece in the morning 😂
Great video,plough press job done
Was that machine at the Royal Highland Show this year ?
Glad Betty Boo was kept safe.😊
Yes thats the machine
Yes, we had our demo machine on the SoilEssentials stand at the Royal Highland Show. You can see her again at AgriScot in November.
You could've let the cows in to tidy up the broccoli, they love it.
Yeh i should have
With the broccali you can get a 2nd pick of them they keep putting heads up they smaller but still taste good a new project for gate lady or your staff could help themselves or do a you pick times for small charge or get a foodbank mob. I dont know if you donate that to a food bank if will give a tax relief in the UK
When you have a weather window, it could go all night, where you need some sleep, it doesn't. But if the technology was used in an existing tractor type, that could be turned on/off.... wow😊
Another good video made me laugh when you gave tbe bumper a little squeeze and stopped the machine 😂. Could your cows had a munch on the left over 🥦?
Hi Crawford, I know it's the way farming is going but what happens when you break a tine or a bearing goes bad and it runs for hours doing further damage, it just seems you would need someone babysitting it whilst it's working, that's why I think it will be normal tractors that have been retrofitted with this technology but still having someone in the drivers seat when things go wrong.
Hi, to answer your question... operators can remotely monitor a number of parameters, including viewing live camera feeds. Implement manufacturers are developing ‘smart’ implements that are integrated with the AgBot. This will monitor shear bolts, auto reset and even sound as part of the standard process.
@@soilessentials hi thanks for the reply, I have never seen any videos highlighting all that so it answers a lot of questions, I have been out of farming for over thirty years so this looks like science fiction to me as when I worked on the farm we didn’t even have GPs.
@@billy140572 AI technologies are moving at pace and here we are now with real, viable options for the agricultural industry, where relevant. A more sustainable way to farm, operating in narrowing work and weather windows and assisting with labour shortages, we hope to see a few adopters in Scotland soon.
Does it stop and raid the farm shop for pasties and sausage rolls, just asking for a friend. 🤣🤣
LMAO - there's another advantage - it doesn't steal from the shop 😆
A Scottish friend?
@@habslover2306 possibly
Could have got your wedding sheep on that broccoli field.
That would involve seeing them
@@CrawfordsFarm1haha
@@CrawfordsFarm1 closer to the main farm, surely you could "lose" them in the field next to the shop, kids would love them
🐑🐑👀
I reckon you could break that in less than a week.
a child like you might
Seems like they need to just make a sensor package to put on standard tractors... the tractors are already all digitally controlled... you just need to be able to get out and leave it to do it's thing while you do something else. then you can drive it to the next field or use it as you normally do.
I want to see the emergency bumper in front of the tracks not hanging way out in front, then if it something comes in form the side (like Betty) the E-stop bumper would hit it.
There is already fully automated tractors and combines in Australia that plant seed, harvest all from the comfort of a university campus, think the only job a human has was picking up the cotton bales after it had been harvested
Keep em comin big man
Very interesting but I don’t notice some concerning safety features. For example the dog in such close proximity at the back of machine and no slow down or halt, with the dog being smaller than human is the sensor not picking the dog up when round about machine due to it not picking it up ?
Quite the storm cloud 🌧 at 5:55
Olly had that exact same leak on his radiator coolant line.
your combine auger has a hell of a drop from end to trail. Have youer ever thought of putting a sock on to eliminate "wind spillage " and missing the target mate
The question is yes it is more expensive than a tractor ATM but if you include wages into the calculation as well plus reliability ie being poorly. I bet the price gap is not as big as you think and like you said it might be cheaper than contracting someone for a few months of the year when you struggle. Just a thought. And if it could do more as well like spraying sowing ploughing it adds more walue.
Between these and milking robots, then it's going to have to get a hurry up to get there - staff are hard to get - and at least there's a way through to the future :)
The robot would possibly be good for those awkward neighbours who like to moan about tractors working late as it wouldn't need lights to work.
I have just seen this machine working this morning up here in Easter Ross but Mary as the lad doing the demonstration called it took a hissie fit and stopped but we think it was because it was 10 o'clock tea time 😂. I do think that there will be more of this type of machine appear in the future as the farming industry has a shortage of staff.
😆
What would it be like on a plough a little damp on top ?
Hi, to answer your question... On land ploughing has been carried out. The AgBot continually monitors it’s heading and also track slip to maintain the guidance path it is on.
It’ll never replace the “Gate Lady” 😂
Damn. That this is 320K?!!! A hell of a lot of money for a Tesla with some tracks!
Good morning. Wet areas in fields? How does it avoid them? Manual input to the gps prior to entering a field? Does it detect and bypass?
Manual inputs at the moment
Hi, to answer your question... Obstacles including wet patches are pre-planned with the task. The track slip is also monitored and a pre-planned threshold set.
Can this be used to prepp motocross tracks also automatic ?
Efficiency gains and mechanisation have reduced the agriculture workforce to about 1/10th over the last 75 years.
Automation will make some further advances to reduce the manpower requirements, but i would guess that automation won't make more than a 25-50% reduction.
Fair play robot is
The future .
All well and good when things go smoothly but I don’t think any foreseeable technology will replace a man in the cab on a farm.
The cattle would love to munch on and clean up the broccoli, as long as the fences are ok :-)
When conditions change I.e starts raining, does the robot decide when to call it a day or does this become a manual decision/ input
Manual decision, but you can set the amount of track slip that it will cut out at
Hi, to answer you question... as Crawford mentioned earlier... track slip is monitored and if a threshold is reached, it will stop the task.
What happens when the implement behind clogs up with trash?
What happens if it hits a wet spot and gets stuck?
You set the amount of track slip that it cuts out at, you the get a notification. Can check the cameras on it to see whats up. Then send it off again or go and sort it
Question: with fly tipping on the increase, does the Autonomous tractor detect rubbish that has been thrown and scattered into the field?
Another entertaining video Bandit 😂👍🏻
As you say, it is a lot of money for a single purpose machine. It will be intersting if they can make it cheaper and also make it multi purpose.
Have you ever seen the film "Kill dozer" ?
No but i know the story!
Like it or not it's the future of factory farming systems.
Fortunately or unfortunately it is👍🏼
New Holland as a tractor with a cab on it drive it from the combine
The new skynet this is how the machines will take over not a humanoid robot looking like Arnold Schwarzenegger. It’ll be this thing with a power harrow or a wood chipper on
Not sure about a robot tractor a proper tractor gas guzzling big beast on a farm. Interesting
John Henry’s hammer.
Does it know not to drive into a wet spot in the field
Hi, to answer your question... If you have included this within your pre-plan, then yes. There is no intelligence on the machine to determine this external factor. However, track slip is monitored and if a threshold is reached, it will stop the task.
prices i should imagine will maybe drop a little in several yrs time too ..providing there are indeed other manufactures selling more of the same ..competition at the moment is minimal...thats what i think but what do i know as im just a silly owd fool
❤❤
Can they handle hills?
I would assume so, low centre of gravity and a wide footprint
@@CrawfordsFarm1 looks that way. Shouldn’t slide with a machine in the ground 🤞
£325k, what’s that compared to a new Fendt?
That robot is a neat wee thing, but give it 30 years and just about all farmers will be sat in an office and phoning their mechanic when anything breaks
The technology will end up being retro fitted to existing tractors.
If that’s the future I’m staying in the past
I wonder why it is electric not hydraulic?
Hi, to answer your question... In the design process, electric was chosen due to the efficiency of conversion (the diesel engine has a constant load from the generator) and also the torque generated and delivered to the track technology. This solution means its capable of delivering a high torque and power through the track system, in either direction.
@@soilessentials,🤔that is interesting, is there a battery onboard?
Do you have a rough figure for how much more energy efficiency a diesel-electric solution is over a similarly capable diesel-hydraulic solution?
@@dfgaJK We don’t rely on battery storage technology. The diesel engine has a constant engine load from the generator. I don’t have an efficiency figure to hand. However, the fuel consumption is comparable with a similar horsepower tractor.
@@soilessentials I assumed by efficiency you meant higher energy efficiency. But if the fuel consumption is the same as a conventional hydraulic tractor that can't be the case.
What do you mean by efficiency?
Going to need spotty 12 year olds to operate these machines now.
🤣🤣🤣
How does it cope if implement breaks or disc broken ?
Self destructs 🧨🧨
👀🙄🐾Interesting video automation has it's place milking robots have around for 30yrs or more what % of dairy cattle are milked by a robot?
Don't get sucked in, look into the mining for battery materials and you'll find some is mine by kids, slaves.
Also what you gonna do if the power goes out? Which we've had warnings about.
I was replaced by a robot makeing parts for feed bins dairy farm is putting robots in were I used to work when I got unstable Angina can't lift n carry mutch
If much rather the future is more like fifty years ago with people working and learning to grow. Not robots and ai and people not working out pretty much only working for the government.
Soon be there will be a robot for everything. Poor aul human going to be replaced if technology doesn’t slow down
Disappointed, I was expecting you to be sitting in the field on deck chair having a bandit beer or stout watching the tractor work!
😯😯😯😯
Are these jobs even advertised to locals any more? It is no use saying we can’t get the staff and not bother to bring people into the farming lifestyle. The whole trend is to reduce the workforce to who ultimately? Will all of it simply be done remotely with a travelling band of tech specialists to keep the (very) expensive machines running. Does no one see just how damaging this has all been to society?
You think its hard to get staff now, just wait until the robots are out doing all the fun jobs that attract the youngsters to farming in the first place and they're stuck in the grain store with a brush. Seems to me its a solution to a problem that doesnt exist. The focus should be on making agriculture more appealing to the next generation by using robots to do the bad jobs
I agree, but can’t see that focus getting considered up the ladder
Why not just put driverless autopilot in a tractor?
Phone fife tractors 🚜
It will be great when it's new but technology has a habit of not working 😂 will you get a government grant for it ?
Its ironic that 4 videos ago(?) you were asking why no young folks are coming into farming.
Why does it sound like there's an engine?
OK i asked too soon. It may as well just run on deisel.
i like driving tractors... no thank you
The robot wouldn't be much use on trailer work.
Nope
Problem with Robot tractor is going to make a lonely business even lonelier
I agree
@@CrawfordsFarm1 We import 80% of our fruit and 50% of our veg here in the UK. Tools like this will help us grow more ourselves here.
Looks unreliable and it would break if I rained
Skynet....