We had boots on the ground at the FIRA ag robotics conference in Woodland, Calif., a couple weeks ago. PFD associate editor Mackane Vogel caught up with Paul Welbig, director of precision technology for New Holland. Autonomy was a hot topic at the conference, and Welbig says it’s evolving quickly.
“Even just a few years ago when these terms first started to hit the industry — automation, AI, autonomy — we’ve come so far in a relatively short period of time. Here at New Holland, we’re always innovating and trying to leverage the latest technology. Now you’re just starting to see it baked into a lot of different solutions that we’re offering. From an automation perspective, it’s automating a lot of tasks that an operator would have to do, especially if they’re redundant tasks or mundane. The more replication there is in some sort of operation, the more opportunity there is to automate it.”
Catch our full conversation with Welbig on PrecisionFarmingDealer.com.
