International Agricultural Robots Forum - 18/19 November 2016. Naïo Technologies shared their view on agricultural robotics, which aim to improve access to healthy food for all, while respecting the environment. “Over the last 60 years, world population has grown from 2 to 6.5 billion people. On the time scale of humanity, this increase is simply staggering,” stated Gaëtan Séverac, the Naïo Technologies COO. “Food is widely available in large quantities, but the increase in production has entailed undesirable consequences: a decrease in quality, a heavy burden on the environment, lots of waste and tough life conditions for farmers.” Naïo Technologies believes that the robotization of agricultural processes is inevitable to overcome these problems. Farmers will increasingly become farm managers, who will no longer have to execute repetitive tasks with little to no added value. Subsequently, Aymeric Barthes, Naïo Technologies’ CEO, officially introduced the entire range of Naïo robots: • The 2017 version of their -now famous- Oz robot, which weeds in between rows and is designed for vegetable, flower and tree farms. Today, 70 robots are already in use in France and across Europe; • The Dino vegetable robot, a straddling robotic weeder for large-scale vegetable farms; • The Ted vineyard robot, a straddling robotic weeder for vineyards; • The Bob vineyard robot, a crawler robot for narrow vineyards.

2. World population in Billions, throught times

3. % of American workforce in agriculture,
from 1840 to 2000

5. Farming is a complex job

6. Today : weeding robots
Tomorrow : connected farms

7. Our weeding robots line :
from vegetable to vigne crops

8. « Oz », for small size vegetable crops

9. « Oz », for small size vegetable crops
• More than 70 clients, since 2013
• 80x70x50 cm
• Max speed : 1,5 Km/h
• Autonomy : 3 to 8 hours of continuous work
• Performances : 10H to weed 1Ha
• Average cost : 21 K€

10. « Dino » : for industrial vegetable crops

11. « Dino » : for industrial vegetable crops
• Sold out for 2016
• To order for 2017
• 2x1,8x1,2 m
• Max speed : 4 Km/h
• Autonomy : 6 to 8 hours of continuous work
• Performances : 10H to weed 5Ha
• Average cost : 75 K€

13. « Bob », for small vineyard

14. « Bob », for small vineyard
• To sell in 2017
• 150x75x80 cm
• Max speed : 3 Km/h
• Autonomy : 4 to 6 hours of continuous work
• Performances : 10H to weed 3Ha
• Average cost : 35 K€

15. « TED », for vineyard

16. « TED », for vineyard
• To sell in 2017
• 2x1,8x2 m
• Max speed : 4 Km/h
• Autonomy : 6 to 8 hours of continuous work
• Performances : 10H to weed 5Ha
• Average cost : 80 K€

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