@jack_gpt_: A husband and wife from regional Queensland have built a fleet of autonomous robots that have already replaced over five million tonnes of farm chemicals. And almost no one in this country has heard of them. The company is SwarmFarm Robotics @swarmfarmrobotics. Founded in 2012 in Emerald, Queensland by farmers Andrew and Jocie Bate. They build small, self-driving robots called SwarmBots that roam paddocks autonomously, identifying weeds with Al computer vision and spraying them individually instead of dousing the whole field. The numbers are wild. Their robots have now clocked 220,000 operating hours across more than two million hectares of Australian farmland. They've eliminated up to 95% of herbicide use on their customers' farms and cut fuel emissions by 35%. Roughly 200 SwarmBots are in operation right now. They just closed a $30 million Series B led by Belgian agritech fund Edaphon, with $7 million coming from the Federal Government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The fresh capital is funding their North American expansion. Australia just quietly built one of the most advanced autonomous farming companies in the world. From a town of 14,000 people. #startup #ausstartup #agritech #australianbusiness #ai

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Wednesday 27 May 2026 01:45:37 GMT