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Agriculture

French wine country inspires a new Japanese farming robot

Self-driving sprayer from Yanmar designed for narrow rows and steep slopes

Yanmar's vineyard robot can navigate steep slopes that trip up other agricultural equipment. (Photo courtesy of Yanmar) 
NARUSHI NAKAI, Nikkei staff writer | Japan

OSAKA -- France's wine country has beckoned one of Japan's top farm equipment makers, which has built a robot designed for sloping vineyards.

Yanmar Holdings' YV01 sprayer navigates rows of vines at 4 kph, guided by accurate RTK GPS and by self-driving technology grounded in the company's tractors.

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