Robots are increasingly used in agriculture, but they remain out of reach for many smallholder farmers. Australian startup Ambit Robotics wants to change that, starting with a crop-spraying robot developed specially for Southeast Asian farms.Using an Android app, a farmer or crop-spraying worker can drive the Ambit robot around a plot of farmland, marking out the spraying area in its GPS system. In the process, the robot uses laser-based sensors to detect the rows of crops and the empty lanes between them. Finally, the robot automatically moves between rows to spray its pesticide payload.Seeki...
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