Autonomous vehicles aren’t just on our roads, now they’re in our fields working and managing farms for producers. With new lines of autonomous equipment being announced almost daily, that can mean less time behind the tractor wheel and more time focusing on other areas of need for the modern farmer. But it’s an older technology – stereovision – that NODAR cofounder Brad Rosen points to as the standard for autonomous technology in farming. “Stereovision is really good for farming,” Rosen said. “It’s vibration resilient, it operates quite well in the face of dust, and it’s very accurate.” Stereovision technologies also are generally significantly cheaper than LiDAR-based techs, often five to 10 times cheaper. “The problem with LiDAR is that it’s very expensive and it’s brittle. Mechanical LiDAR usually breaks after around 7,000 hours.”
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