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SwarmFarm showed three robots working together to spray weeds on a wheat farm at Gindie, near Emerald in Queensland.
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What the source says
“Tuesday’s demonstration included three robots working cooperatively to spray weeds on a wheat farm at Gindie.”
What it means
SwarmBot, from SwarmFarm Robotics, is at stage 4 of 5 on our ladder: paying customers. Its stage is set by other milestones on its record; this one adds to the history.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on SwarmBot
- SwarmFarm has installed 14 AutoFill systems with paying customers.
- SwarmFarm's AutoFill, which mixes chemicals and refills a robot's spray tank on its own, won the 2026 Henty Machine of the Year award.
- SwarmFarm raised $30 million in a Series B round, partly to grow in North America.
- The Australian government's Clean Energy Finance Corporation put $7 million into SwarmFarm.
- Grower Charlie Buchanan, who farms near Come By Chance in New South Wales, bought a SwarmBot in 2023.
- SwarmFarm said its robots had sprayed, weeded and mowed more than 200,000 acres of farmland over two years.