@jack_gpt_: A husband and wife from regional Queensland have built a fleet of autonomous robots that have taken millions of litres of chemical off Australian farms. Almost nobody in Australia has heard of them. 🤖 SwarmFarm Robotics @swarmfarmrobotics, started in 2012 by farmers Andrew and Jocie Bate at Gindie, just out of Emerald. Their SwarmBots roam paddocks and pick out individual weeds, so they spray those instead of the whole field. 📊 220,000 operating hours across more than 2 million hectares, with around 200 robots working. 🌱 The CEFC says that cuts herbicide use by up to 95% and fuel emissions by 35%. 💰 They closed a $30 million Series B led by Belgian fund Edaphon, with $7 million from the Federal Government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation. 🇺🇸 The money funds their North American push. Australia quietly built one of the world's most advanced autonomous farming companies, out of a town of 15,000. Sources: CEFC, Startup Daily, InnovationAus, Grain Central, ABS Census #startup #ausstartup #agritech #australianbusiness #ai

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