Autonomy in Specialty Crops News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. Automation in row crop farming is difficult enough, but the problems get even more complex in speciality crops. Charlie Andersen and his team at Burro are helping farmers take the first step to bringing robots onto the farm. Andersen… “You know, you think, if you're in the Midwest and you're a big tractor, you're high up, there's nothing above you. You can use high precision GPS to navigate around. If you're in a blueberry ranch or a table grape vineyard, you're under the canopy. You can't see the sky at all. There's oftentimes no cell phone reception. GPS is going to be super spotty. And so you've got to be able to perceive the world with computer vision and recognize where can I drive? Where can't I drive? Is it a bucket? Is it a person? All those other things. So a lot of the seemingly basic questions around how to drive around in a crop like blueberries or table grapes are actually quite difficult to solve.”