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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.
A dated step forward on the record
What the source says
“AutoFill won the 2026 Henty Machine of the Year Award on Tuesday (22 September)”
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 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.
- SwarmFarm showed three robots working together to spray weeds on a wheat farm at Gindie, near Emerald in Queensland.